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TIL there were still three people using iron lungs in 2017, one of them permanently

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jNJPM TIL that in order to make Leia’s message to Obi-Wan sound like it has authentically aged for The Last Jedi (34 years in universe), they re-recorded it on a tape and then “beat the crap out of it”.
oRdB7 TIL back in February 1972, Franken Berry cereal caused some children’s feces to turn pink, a condition dubbed “Franken Berry stool,” due to an indigestible pigment. The recipe, along with Count Chocula’s, was quickly reformulated to remove the pigment.
OR17 TIL That people can detect nano-scale wrinkles as small as 13 nanometres while running their fingers upon a seemingly smooth surface. This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars.
XEpN6 TIL Devonte Hart, the 12 year old boy in the iconic photo hugging the cop, was murdered last year along with his 5 adopted siblings, by his parents.
X0BZQ TIL that the music video for Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" led to 21 missing people being found.