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TIL “new car smell” is carcinogenic.

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6EmJw TIL Physics Laureate Gerard Muorou (2018, Short Pulse Lasers) accidentally revolutionized Ophthalmology when in 1993 a student, struck by the laser, miraculously suffered no damage as the pulse was amazingly short, lasting a femtosecond long. The laser than became the Standard-Bearer in Eye Surgery.
evoJ TIL that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was originally titled “Something That Happened”
ybEw TIL that camels are native to North America and used to exist nowhere else in the world.
vAmD TIL that Mary Had A Little Lamb has an extended version which touchingly promotes kindness to animals
0dayN TIL Paul Revere was a master silversmith