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TIL: That the Playboy Magazine was named after a defunct car company

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N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
wowdJ TIL that the Canonical Hours, the Christian divisions of the day for regular prayers, originated in Jewish prayer customs.
YLnZ TIL 5000 lawsuits are filed against walmart each year, or roughly 17 per day.
VAyQ TIL, Tim Storms holds the record for the lowest bass voice at G-7 or .189Hz, which the human ear cannot even detect.
V64Z TIL that during WWII the Army Corps of Engineers concealed entire factories as small towns to confuse enemy bombers. Here is one example.