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TIL there are sea cruises dedicated to knitting and other crafts

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DMEv TIL that in the late 1800’s, Doctors would infect sick patients with a secondary disease, in order to cure them of the primary one eg. a patient with syphilis would be injected with malaria, to give them a fever and thus, cure them (Most prominently by Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg)
X00YD TIL the same artist, Jacque Louis David, painted the Death of Marat, the Oath of the Horatii, and two of the best-known portraits of Napoleon
p8RmA TIL that "Steady" Ed Headrick, the inventor of the Frisbee had his ashes incorporated into discs after his death so that he could fly. Ed loved the Disc Golf and Frisbee community and he wished for the community to have his discs and for them to have fun and play with them after he passed on.
Oag1 TIL 65 nations refused to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan wasn’t one of them, sending 11 athletes to compete.
06xv TIL that the movie Never Been Kissed was titled “Because She’s Ugly” in the Philippines.