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TIL that some trees can have albinism

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oRkxY TIL that “The Woody Woodpecker Song” was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1948
JnBV TIL The City of Houston is bigger than the state of New Jersey
M78oA TIL - Until the 1990s, doctors believed that infants couldn’t remember pain. Millions of children were operated on without proper anesthesia or sufficient pain management. “the single greatest mistake in the whole of medical history”
P1Oyw TIL only 14% of Americans regularly wore seatbelts in the 80's and laws were considered violations of freedom. To regulate seatbelts, the Reagan administration told automakers to install airbags unless they persuaded 2/3 of states to pass seatbelt laws. New seatbelt laws were often weak, anyway.
loP4a TIL of Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian who served as an army doctor in both the Spanish Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War and invented the first mobile blood transfusion clinic. He is so beloved in China that his eulogy penned by Mao Zedong is required reading in Chinese textbooks.