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TIL that maggot therapy is a medical practice used to clean wounds and promote healing by using live maggots to eat dead tissue

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LQlW9 TIL chlorinated water has no smell. The 'pool smell' is actually chlorine combined with urine. The stronger the pool smell, the more urine in the pool.
Zpx6G TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 snuck Playboy pictures into the prime crew’s mission checklist. It also contained geology jokes, such as “observe the protuberances.”
kPx5 TIL The combination of an exclamation point and question mark is an interrobang. (‽)
p8lG8 TIL squirrels don’t take “fall damage” because their terminal velocity is too low for it to do any damage on impact, it’s the same with ants.
OoNO1 TIL a mom woke up after a 27 year coma, and her first word was her son’s name