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TIL The fella who invented the two-liter bottle was also CEO of Apple!

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JYO6v TIL a 20 year old committed suicide and froze to death from hypothermia, with a body temperature dropping as low as 19C. He was subsequently revived several hours later after an hour and a half of CPR and various complex operations. He survived and has since recovered with no major disabilities.
e0nQ6 TIL that an attempted solution which makes a problem worse is called the Cobra effect. When the British put a bounty on cobras in India to curb the population, it led to people breeding more cobras for the bounty.
LOLZ TIL that the reason Tetris is so addictive is because of deep-seated psychological drive to tidy up
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RJoa TIL of the ‘Radium Girls’ who worked in a factory where they worked with luminescent radium. Not knowing it was dangerous, they oftenpainted it on their lips and teeth for fun. They began to develop radium necrosis, causing their jaws to rot and develop disfiguring tumors, and eventually died.