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TIL in 1915 Ford had a “Sociological Department” tasked with ensuring workers lived/consumed in healthy and rational ways, “to better the financial and moral standing of each employee…to instill courage and a desire for health, happiness and prosperity…to take away fear and worry”

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4krGJ TIL: There is currently an Anti Superstition and Black Magic Act in India passed in 2013. It was mainly passed to reduce scam artists promising cures. However, it also banned carrying out inhumane acts to gain supernatural powers and claiming to be a reincarnated lover to sleep with women.
VMngQ TIL Alzheimer's can't be "officially" diagnosed until after death. They have to confirm diagnosis with autopsy. So essentially they say a person has "dementia." The proteins involved still can't be detected without the autopsy. Today new methods can diagnose it with a 90% accuracy rate though
Brv8r TIL Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully-painted feature film and took six years to make
R7wVa TIL Huge warthog getting "spa treatment" from mongooses in win-win symbiotic relationship called mutualism. Warthogs living in Uganda have learned to rid themselves of annoying ticks by seeking out the grooming services of some accommodating neighbors: a group of mongooses looking for snacks.
j6NxM TIL about the Widmanstätten pattern wich forms in asteroids and because of many factors including temperature, pressure, time and iron/nickel content, it's impossible to recreate on earth in the same way