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TIL that Sleep Country Canada and Sleep Country USA are unaffiliated but they share the slogan “Why buy a mattress anywhere else?”

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kJpl7 TIL that in 1988, a patent was issued for a type of lab mouse that was genetically modified to increase the mouse's chances of developing cancer
5YDpr TIL----FISH CANNONS EXIST---- Whooshh Innovations' "Salmon Cannon" Gives Fish A Boost Over Dams
BPyr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
9YNVM TIL of the Mayak nuclear facility: A nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia that has exposed 450,000 to radiation and was caught dumping untreated nuclear waste in the river from 2001-2004.
Wkd0L TIL that cows are fed a magnet to prevent metal objects from damaging their digestive system. It stays there for life.