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TIL that obese people are sent to Zoos for their CT scans because they cannot fit in a standard hospital CT scanner.

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769M TIL in 1999 a French Holocaust survivor reduced Shell Oil’s accident rate 84 percent by making oil rig workers talk about their feelings
a5gZ TIL that a 2013 study showed that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa).
QJV69 TIL that LBJ constantly asked the flight crew of Air Force One to change the temperature of the cabin. Eventually, they installed a fake control knob for him to 'control' the temperature himself. The president stopped complaining.
NXXKe TIL that the Alt-J album cover “An awesome wave” is a European Space Agency satellite image of the Ganges River Delta in Bangladesh and India and was found by the band when they searched for images related to the word “delta”, the triangle symbol for the band
ORP7 TIL that Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, owns a mountain in West Texas inside of which he is funding the construction of a 200 ft. clock designed to last 10,000 years.