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TIL Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, an encyclopedia of navigation, has been in print since 1802. It is so popular that it's colloquially referred to after it's original author "Bowditch". In 1867 the US government bought the copyright and has published 52 editions of it since then.

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OWMg TIL there are at least 5 confirmed cases of women successfully giving themselves C-sections. One involved a Mexican village woman with no medical training, who after 12 hrs of labor pains, took 3 shots of liquor, cut into her uterus with a kitchen knife, & retrieved her baby alive after an hour.
eE6J TIL Milk contains Magnesium, Calcium, B Vitamins and Theanine, all of which can help lower anxiety and depression.
gMAVW TIL in 1924, a Russian scientist started blood transfusion experiments, hoping to achieve eternal youth. After 11 blood transfusions, he claimed he had improved his eyesight and stopped balding. He died after a transfusion with a student suffering from malaria and TB (The student fully recovered).
4XeKR TIL Henry Ford introduced a $5 min wage. The move made national news as it constituted double the industry norm—and double the pay of most of Ford’s own employees. He also reduced the working day from 9 hours to 8 —becoming one of the first companies in America to adopt the 40-hour work week.
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