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TIL we don't actually know how or why general anesthesia works

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p8EGQ TIL toilet paper originated in China around AD 589 but was not commercially packaged until 1857 by New York entrepreneur Joseph Gayetty. It was marketed as “The greatest necessity of the age!”
pE5A TIL: Illinois’ Eavesdropping Law Was Originally Passed Because Lobbyists Were Recorded Discussing Which State Legislators Were on the Take
Ebpd TIL when puppies play, young boy dogs often let the girls win, so as to entice the females to play with them.
NmdJ TIL of Hart Island, final burial place to over a million of New York City’s unclaimed bodies and thought to be the largest government sponsored mass grave on earth.
aAey TIL that for unknown reasons, during a bidding war with a consortium of tech firms for Nortel’s 6,000 patents, Google bid $1,902,160,540, then $2,614,972,128, and eventually $3.14159 billion (references to Brun’s constant, Meissel–Mertens constant, and pi)