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TIL about the Great Smog of London, an intense five-day period of fog in December 1952 which was so severe that 100,000 people suffered from respiratory disease, and 10,000-12,000 died.

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VMyxD TIL: a real water buffalo is seen being slaughtered at the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” The animal had already been marked for sacrifice by the indigenous tribe whose land they were using to film, so Coppola decided to capture the actual ritual for the movie.
51YB TIL if a Catholic man needs a semen sample to diagnose infertility, he’s supposed to do so by recovering it from a non-lubricated, perforated condom after normal intercourse
4enJ TIL that scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla was skeptical of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. In 1892 he started work on his own “dynamic theory of gravity.” This was revealed when he announced the near completion of the project at age 81. He died 5 years later and the project was never found.
KYN0J TIL that Ed McCabe—the youngest copywriter inducted into the One Club Creative Hall of Fame—was responsible for some the world’s most successful advertising campaigns that ran between the late 60s-80s. He had no formal training in advertising, and he never graduated high school.
Wk4RY TIL: Commerical Flight Attendants and Pilots are 4x more likely to get cancer in their lifetime, because of the time they spend flying, with a thinner atmosphere and more solar particles. They recive 3x more radiation a year than a nuclear plant employee