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TIL an Australian biotech company called Prana may have a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Results from the phase II human trials will be released in March

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d8jWr TIL of The Map That Named America. Martin Waldseemüller, the primary author of the 1507 map, used the term “America” for the fist time. In 1513, he had second thoughts on honoring Vespucci and used the term Terra Incognita (unknown land) instead of “America”.
P86w TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”
pKJb TIL Detroit once had a tourist attraction more popular than the Statue of Liberty. The Ford Rotunda was built for the 1934 World’s Fair and was the fifth most visited site in the U.S. before burning to the ground in 1962
WkP59 TIL that nearly all of China's state-level and federal-level leadership started off as engineers
GY0RE TIL that Heather Graham was seriously considering doing softcore porn before being cast in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me!