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TIL that in the 18th century medical professionals used tobacco smoke enemas to treat ailments from the cold to cholera. Before the use of bellows became the norm the people administering the procedure needed to be careful if they started coughing and accidentally inhaling enema particulates.

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BroVW TIL that the largest municipality in the world is Sermersooq in Greenland, with an area of 531,900 km² (and a population of 23,123) - if it was a country, it would be the 48th largest in the world, larger than Yemen, Spain, or Thailand
4kEZo TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev was a spokesperson for Pizza Hut. Link Below!
yQNjv TIL that in 2004, scientists engineered goats whose milk could save more than 500,000 kids who die each year from diarrheal diseases — that's more than the number of deaths from AIDS, malaria, and measles combined — but the government has left it languishing in regulatory limbo.
mxyBx TIL Apollo astronauts would breathe pure oxygen for several hours before flights in order to avoid getting the bends when the cabin pressure was lowered after liftoff.
KNAJ TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.