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TIL Two infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.

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69bxW TIL surgery/anaesthesia increases your risk of dementia
m6Bx TIL of Kalief Browder, arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed, who spent 3 years at the Rikers Island prison without being convicted of a crime (2 of which was in solitary) and without seeing a trial. He committed suicide after his release.
BQmr TIL The Censored Eleven, eleven Loony Toons cartoons witheld from syndication in 1968, were only shown past that as a special presention in a single theater in 2010 (Now available on Youtube)
DQM8p TIL Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass sold more copies in 1966 than either Rubber Soul or Revolver by the Beatles. Alpert had 3 of the top 5 bestselling albums that year.
b9J0Z TIL about crystal radio, a radio receiver made with simple parts that needs no external power source, all it needs is a radio signal to produce sound.