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TIL the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal is Emily Rosa (aged 9 at the time). Her paper set showed how the Human Energy Field and 'Therapeutic Touch' was largely quackery

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4XojX TIL that chess is played at least once a year by 12% of British people, 15% of Americans, 23% of Germans, 43% of Russians, and 70% of Indian people
r1Qy TIL a Russian woman in the 1700’s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.
P1eRw TIL about Callon of Epidaurus, who underwent the first recorded sex reassignment surgery in the 2nd century BC and then socially transitioned from a priestess to a man.
0d95A TIL the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates there are around 150,000 licenses for radioactive sources and around 1 source per day is either lost or stolen.
lopZA TIL about Project Pigeon where psychologist B.F. Skinner developed pigeon-guided missiles for World War II. He put pigeons in the nose cones of missiles and trained them to peck at targets. It was effective but never got off the ground because nobody took them seriously and radar became popular.