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TIL Japan blames the decline of fish in oceans on whales and dolphins

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X0K1j TIL in 2015, a wine bar in the U.K. was fined £100,000 after a woman underwent lifesaving surgery to have her stomach removed, following her consumption of a liquid nitrogen cocktail. She had reportedly experienced "an explosion" in her stomach just four seconds after the drink was poured for her.
p8oOG TIL that Geographical Information Systems were invented in Canada by Roger Tomlinson, a Brit.
yQnKV TIL Auto-Tune actually originated as a byproduct of the mining industry
X0war TIL the earliest known toy trains were made in the 1850s and powered by alcohol fires and real steam. They had the tendency to start house fires due to their fuel leaking and igniting when the toy fell over. Earlier models had no safety valves and would explode due to excess boiler pressure.
R5b94 TIL that the 1918 Flu was definitively connected to Influenza virus using a remarkably preserved body in Alaska, that still had remnants of Flu RNA which was sequenced and recreated.