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TIL That United States Patent #6630507 is a direct contradiction to the USA stance on Marijuana. | The Department of Health and Human Services has patented the use of Cannabinoids as a neuroprotectants and to treat neurodegenerative diseases.

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LQyy0 TIL that the psychiatrist Henry Cotton would sometimes extract all of a patient's teeth as he believed infected teeth to be the cause of psychiatric disorders. If that didn't work, he'd remove testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes and colons.
m1NVO TIL about transgenerational effects the Dutch famine of 1944. Children of pregnant women at this time are more likely to develop health issues like diabetes. Even further, their great grandchildren are also more likely to develop health issues (despite only being developing eggs during the famine).
0wN81 TIL Pangaea was not the first supercontinent. That honor goes to the billion year old landmass known as Rodinia. The continents routinely split apart and come back together, a process known as the supercontinent cycle.
olpK TIL Chinese censorship has banned Big Yellow Rubber Ducks, Leaders doing Gangnam Style, Penis shaped buildings, Pictures of Empty Chairs, and TV shows that feature Time Travel.
J1Mlj TIL: Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. WW I veteran, died in 2011. He was 110. At 16, he lied about his age and enlisted in 1917. Later, when WW II began, he was working for a company in Manilla. Japan invaded the Philippines in 1941 and Buckles was captured and imprisoned for over 3 years.