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TIL US hospitals originally banned the newly discovered techniques of cleaning surgical tools to prevent infections

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xVejb TIL that an Australian local GP has saved a boy's life by using a household drill to bore a hole in the child's skull after he was injured in a bike accident
nWGMW TIL that there's a turtles species capable of breathing under water through its butt. Cloacal respiration is a built-in scuba diving system
rRGvo TIL that English's formal word for "you" was "you", while "thou" was used to express intimacy & familiarity
xv6w TIL that Bradbury wrote the entire novel “Fahrenheit 451” in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library on a pay typewriter that he rented for a fee of ten cents per half an hour. It took him only 9,80$ and 9days.
kJ6JW TIL that between 2016 and 2020 doctors in the USA surgically mutilated 48,000 people for profit