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TIL Billy Joel was a boxer. He quit after breaking his nose in his last fight, ending his career at 22-2.

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j6VrN TIL Picher, Oklahoma is the Most Polluted Place in America From Mining and Industry
yQERw TIL that Vietnam War medics formed the core of early EMS. Their training and experience were needed, as many first responders in the 60s were undertrained funeral home workers. So, those wounded in combat actually had a better chance of survival than those getting into car accidents in the US.
a80KZ TIL in 400 BCE Persian engineers created a ice machine in the desert.
R77ew TIL in 1989 fifteen major airlines would not show the scene in Rain Man where Raymond Babbitt talks about aviation safety.
M0MK TIL the United States government fed radioactive oatmeal to mentally handicapped children to study the effects of radioactivity.