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kJKVm TIL before antibiotics were created, malaria was used as a cure for syphilis, this discovery won the 1927 Nobel prize for medicine
epYxL TIL that there are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth
Y75kr TIL that in 1917, doctors deliberately infected people with malaria to treat syphilis — because the high fevers caused by malaria could kill the bacteria responsible for syphilis. The method actually worked and even won its creator, Julius Wagner‑Jauregg, the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927.