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TIL hazardous chemical exposures were common experiences in United States of America in mid 1960s, and two years before OSHA (U.S.A) enactment of 1970, 14,000 workers died each year from work related hazards and another two million were disabled or harmed.

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xVVGk Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material. As such, there are no plans to send a manned mission in its direction anytime soon (Mars is much more interesting, anyway), but it can't hurt to figure out at what distance a person would want to turn back. You can get surprisingly close. The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if we think of that distance as a football field, a person starting at one end zone could get about 95 yards before burning up.
vPXWR TIL that wealthy farmers in 19th century Britain would commission exaggerated paintings of large livestock as a status symbol, that they were somehow superior to other livestock farmers and breeders.
eLnk TIL Musket shot (bullets) were made by dropping molten lead from a tall tower, allowing it to cool into a sphere on its way down.
5YlJk TIL that Olivia de Haviland, an actress who starred in Gone With The Wind and dated Howard Hughes, is still alive at age 101.
LER9 TIL in 1995 a Walmart store banned a shirt that said “Someday a Woman Will Be President” because it ran afoul of “the company’s family values.”