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TIL That the anime sequences in the opening scene of Malcolm in the middle come from an anime called “Nazca”

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5VelD TIL In the United States over 24 billion eggs are broken per year at egg breaking facilities. Additionally egg membranes are high in collagen and used in dietary supplements.
epkA5 TIL in 1811, Frances Burney wrote a first-hand account of her mastectomy performed without anesthesia. “When the dreadful steel was plunged into my breast…cutting through veins, arteries, flesh, nerves…I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries.”
b6kO4 TIL the transistor was patented 21 years before a working one was actually created.
wLx7W TIL that officer Ronald Speirs, just after being assigned commander of the E Company in January 1945 during the battle of Foy, ran through the German-occupied town and lines, linked up with the I Company soldiers on the other part of town and then proceeded to run back through without a scratch.
7rKNL TIL “Millions Of Cats” by Wanda Gág Is the oldest american picture book still in print.