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TIL the first officially recognized disease caused by an occupation was scrotal cancer in children chimney sweeps in 1775.

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16BnW TIL that a Commodore 64 program was hidden in the "run-out groove" of the 1984 vinyl record album Electric Eye by the band Prodigal. When the program is loaded and run on the Commodore computer, it displays quotes from Albert Einstein and the Bible.
69QDY TIL in 1895 a judge awarded nothing beyond burial costs to the parents of a two year old killed by the Southern Railway Company of Georgia, due to the child being too young to have any "earning capacity" of it's own.
KYMjB TIL that Lewis Stone, who played Mickey Rooney's kindly old father in the Andy Hardy films, died of a heart attack while chasing the neighborhood kids off his lawn.
v6dR TIL that the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the known universe, being 1 degree above Absolute Zero.
kJBWB TIL about The Pig Precinct. In 1972 after the Iowa state supreme court ordered legislative redistricting a new district was created that did not have any human residents, just pigs. They were the only full-time residents housed in an experimental animal disease laboratory.