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TIL A 2-year study that linked Ecstasy to Parkinsons was retracted from the journal Science after the authors realized they had accidentally used meth instead.

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BrRWr TIL timeless physics is the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion. Arguably we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it.
a8k8A TIL there’s an album of 27 songs, one for each of the 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
QNQmX TIL Although the general pattern is similar in all people, the precise area of skin supplied by each nerve are as unique to an individual as fingerprints.
oRkMo TIL that the last US soldier, Master Sgt. Max Beilke, to leave Vietnam was killed in the 9/11 Attacks when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.
glWW TIL that soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi are often used instead of harmful pesticides in India