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TIL Despite having overlapping protection in almost all places, bomb suits leave the hands and forearms completely unprotected so that the technician has greater mobility.

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jpGv TIL Colchicine, a Drug that’s been used safely since 550 AD to treat Gout, has gone from 10 cents a pill to $5 a pill. The FDA decided to offer a monopoly to anyone that would do safety testing. URL Pharma was granted a monopoly after a 1 week trial involving 185 patients and a $45 million fee.
epwY4 TIL that it's the Swiss - not the Japanese, or the Indians - who travel the most by rail, per capita, in kilometres. Who would have guessed?
d8mxK TIL of "The Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory who may have murdered over 650 women. She was given house arrest instead of execution because of her nobility.
YpoDd TIL an underwater icicle, AKA brinicle or "finger of death", kills everything in its path. The water freezes in an icy sheath around it & a web of ice forms that kills everything it touches, including sea urchins and starfish, by encasing it in a tube of ice.
l7Xl7 TIL that mushrooms are more closely related to humans than to plants.