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TIL, there are only 3 people in the United States still using iron lungs.

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941r TIL that according to the ‘Copyright Act 1911’ The British Library must receive a copy of every item published or distributed in the United Kingdom (including pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, sheet music and maps) in a practice know as 'legal deposit’, which can be traced back to at least 1610.
9YVR7 TIL Dan Rather, a reporter at the time, wanted to write a story about heroin and how it feels. He convinced police officers to administer a dose of heroin to himself.
AD8Go TIL that the bodies of hypothermia victims are often found "hidden" in strange places such as closets, under the bed and behind furniture. This is a primal, evolutionary response called "hide and die" which victims experience moments before they perish.
9a7p TIL in 2013 Europe was hit by a horse meat scandal, in which 300 tons of horse meat was found throughout the EU food supply labeled as beef. The source was traced to a Romanian slaughterhouse, who sold it as horse meat to a chain of Cyprus, Dutch, and Irish resellers who mislabeled it.
16JxV TIL that ice at -50°C is as hard as glass