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TIL that a family who had orphaned kids living with them got on Extreme Makeover Home Edition, then kicked the kids out of the house

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4XXdo TIL in 2007, a 73-year-old man underwent surgery and suffered "anesthesia awareness" -- a condition where the patient is conscious and feels pain but is paralyzed and cannot alert the surgeon. The man's resulting PTSD led him to suicide, prompting a lawsuit against the anesthesiologists.
GYo8Q TIL Snoop Dogg has released a lullaby album which features 12 of his hits made kid-friendly in partnership with Rockabye Baby! Music, including: "Gin and Juice," "Drop It Like It's Hot," "Sensual Seduction," and "Snoop's Upside Ya Head."
6EO6Z TIL of the Gospel of Wealth - a manifesto written by Andrew Carnegie that urged the wealthy to avoid extravagance, reinvested into the community and for the state to impose progressive taxes on estates
OlM7 TIL that from 1952 to 1956, billions of Kent Micronite cigarettes were sold with a filter made from asbestos. The new filter was marketed as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”
6Lm8 TIL A woman hired A hitman to kill a family in order to obtain a block of cocaine she had seen, but it later turned out to be a block of fancy cheese.