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TIL 9% of school-aged children are diagnosed with ADHD and medicated in the US, compared with 0.5% in France. The discrepancy comes from differences in treatment. France found that changing social context, not prescribing drugs, mitigated the behavioural problems in the majority of cases.

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lovjK TIL that Louis Armstrong was an avid pot smoker all his life. He was arrested for drug possession in New Orleans in 1930, and was jailed 9 days for it, but described marijuana as being "a thousand times better than whiskey".
dlVZ TIL in 1933 six thousand people were deported to an island in the Soviet Union and left with only flour to eat and no shelter. Guards would hunt people like animals, deliberately sink ships full of people and cannibalism became common.
R74bw TIL that the myth that Spinach is good for low Iron (it actually prevents the body from absorbing it) was caused by a decimal point error in the 1930s that declared it had 10x the Iron concentration of other vegetables (it's average at best)
xVDyb TIL psychiatrist Avicenna had a malnourished patient who believed he was a cow ready to be slaughtered. Avicenna, impersonating a butcher, came to kill him but said the cow was too lean and had to eat more. The patient ate more food which restored his health and cured the delusion.
Q1jp TIL in 1952 after a good samaritan helped capture notorious bank robber Willie Sutton, NYC Mob Boss Albert Anastasia ordered the man dead after watching an interview with him on TV saying “I can’t stand squealers! Hit that guy!”. The man was killed a few days later. Sutton had no Mob connections