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TIL that the phrase “to blow smoke up your ass” was an actual medical practice used by indigenous North American people to stimulate respiration. It’s called a tobacco smoke enema.

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9wWZM TIL Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, was the “father of public relations.” He opened the tobacco market to women, branding cigarettes as feminist “Torches of Freedom.” He died in 1995, at the age of 103.
D15Ev Today I Learned that Prostate cancer has a higher mortality- and appearance -rate than breast cancer (at least in the UK). With a lack of awareness leading to less overall funding to further research efforts. Despite of it, there has been great strides none the less, with lowering in all rates.
oly8 TIL mini-chameleons the size of a fingernail were discovered on Madagascar in 2012
4XlXo TIL that St Chad of Mercia is jocularly suggested to be the patron saint of botched election due to the confused nature of his appointment as saint and the relation to the word chad which is the small fragment of paper left when holes are made in paper
K9B9 TIL 80% of black smokers smoke menthols