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TIL John urschel a former NFL player retired after 3 seasons and continued his career teaching vector calculus , trigonometry.

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XE10R TIL The United States, Canada, and New Zealand are the only 3 countries in the world that allow prescription drugs to be directly advertised to the general public.
0d4BA TIL there are actual work reasons to have these things
5VrRp TIL that perhaps counterintuitively, defibrillators do not shock the heart to get it to beat normally- the shock actually stops the heart from beating altogether. This allows the natural automatic pacemaker of the heart to operate again and restore the heart's rhythm back to normal.
VBYxD TIL France has detonated nearly 200 nuclear bombs in the South Pacific, the last of which was in 1996
p8Rl8 TIL that the Windscale Fire - the UK's worst nuclear accident - would have been much more severe, were it not for "Cockroft's Folly" - chimney filters installed at great expense, and labelled as a waste of time and money.