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TIL the brains of rats have a “random mode” that is switched on when they are in unfamiliar situations
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TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.
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TIL that dentists & dental hygienists cannot tell if you’ve given a blowjob relatively recently, despite common assumption it doesn't causes unique soft palate damage
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TIL: FedEx officially recognizes 'Taiwan' as 'Taiwan, China'
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TIL In 1854, during the Crimean war, the British hospital in Constantinople was extremely unhygienic. Patients lay in their own excrement, and rodents and bugs scurried past them. More soldiers died of disease than injury. Florence Nightingale fixed this by getting patients to clean the hospital.