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TIL in 2007 Dr. Elena Bodnar patented a brassiere design that allows the cups to be separated and used as emergency face masks -- one for the wearer of the bra, and one for a needy bystander

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d85d8 TIL there's a special memorial with tiles in a London Park for ordinary people that died while saving people other peoples live. It's called 'Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice' . It has been erected in 1900. Last name added was in 2009.
VMZLQ TIL about Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbia city in what is now the United States. Its pyramids and earthen mounds stood near present-day East St. Louis, IL. Around the year 1050, it had 30,000 people, making it larger than London or Paris at the time. It was abandoned by 1400.
OYvL TIL In 2005 China’s deputy health minister acknowledged that the majority of organ transplants are sourced from executions (as much as 95%).
eWe4 TIL that Claudius was the only one of the first 15 Roman emperors not to take a male lover. Others considered him strange for only being attracted to women
VokB TIL XVideos alone averages 4.4 billion page views per month, double what Reddit pulls over the same time and triple what CNN can do.