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Today I learned that a thousand year old garlic and onion medical recipe was an effective antibiotic ointment.

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e0AK4 TIL the United States military when trying to avoid divulging information gives reporters briefings with 25 minutes of intentionally dull PowerPoint presentations and 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone who is still awake. The presentations are called hypnotizing chickens.
VBwEp TIL that Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo has "slow lane" checkouts for customers who like to chat with the employees.
9wrQG TIL 50 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, only 4 of the 12 moonwalkers are still alive: Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmitt. After leaving NASA, Duke chose the creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
loEJV TIL that 3.7 million people have been killed by cars in the USA since 1900, which is more than twice the number of deaths from all wars in US history combined
awQWL TIL about the remote island chain in the pacific called the Pitcairn Islands and how they have one settlement of about 50 people who are almost all decended from the mutineers of the HMS Bounty and the indiginous Tahitians the mutineers had with them.