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Today I learned that Early Doctors Diagnosed Disease by Looking at Urine

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epAE TIL in 1910, Norman Angell (a future Nobel Price Peace Winner) published a book that propagated the view that Europe had become so economically interlaced that future war was impossible.
NV9N TIL a man named Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. was charged with trading methamphetamines to male addicts in exchange for sex. He was booked into the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Center, named for him after he retired as sheriff.
9wler TIL: Sometimes it snows on Mars. However, the snowflakes are made out of carbon dioxide, not water. The flakes don’t fall, but create a fog-like effect.
x8EB TIL that in 1965 a ‘grossly obese’ man survived without eating for 1 year and 17 days. He lived entirely off his copious body fat and ended up losing 125kg of weight with no adverse effects. Also, he only pooped every 40 - 50 days.
8e0gK TIL that rattlesnakes can form "friendships", and being in the presence of their friend reduces their stress.