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TIL it is illegal to download the anarchist’s cookbook in the UK

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9YM5G TIL up until around the 1970s, hospital laboratory workers used mouth pipetting to transfer patient's blood for testing from one container to the next, frequently getting the patients blood or other chemicals in their mouth.
8adja TIL that the Simpsons character Ned Flanders is named after Flanders Street in Portland Oregon, where the show's creator, Matt Groening grew up.
vZRD TIL in 2012, 159 donors made up 60% of Super PAC funding.
PN0E TIL there’s a shrine in Bangkok to a naughty old beggar. After one man prayed at the shrine and won the lottery, he rewarded the beggar with a troupe of sexy dancers. Now people regularly bring dancers to the shrine to seek good fortune (with video)
Oo6MR TIL the CIA, FBI, & other Govt agencies still use Polygraph tests for screening employees despite no supporting scientific evidence of their effectiveness and being legally banned in the hiring process of most jobs and as evidence in court rooms.