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TIL That in 2016 a woman was seriously burnt after 'fart' caused laser to burst into flames

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7OOp TIL that there is little proof that antioxidants are actually healthy [Harvard School of Public Health].
8a9WZ TIL that in an experiment done on mice with Alzheimer's, exposing them to lights flickering at 40hz for an hour, reduced the beta-amyloid plaques in their brains by 50%.
Vlx4 TIL India’s richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors for capacity of up to 168 cars. A staff of 600 maintain the home.
kOeD1 TIL that the term "Wi-Fi" is a brand name created to sound catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'. It is not short for anything including "wireless fidelity," which was only coined after the fact as a backronym
4ZjR TIL that Teddy Roosevelt suffered a detached retina in 1908 after becoming blind in one eye due to a boxing injury in the White House. He later switched to jiu-jitsu and became a black belt.