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TIL that Anorexia Nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder.

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d8O17 TIL about Project Rulison. The US detonated a 40 kiloton nuclear weapon underground in rural Colorado. The goal was to liberate natural gas as part of Operation Plowshare. Unfortunately the gas was too radioactive to use in homes.
0x85 TIL the UK has the most breweries per capita in the world.
NyYe TIL China’s Emperor Qin sent his magician to find the elixir of life. The magician sailed away with the “sacrifice” of 6000 boys and girls, lots of wheat, and never returned. Some believe that he settled in Japan and became their first emperor.
0wlDp TIL that famed New Jersey singer Frank Sinatra, is the Great Uncle of another famed New Jersey singer, Jon Bon Jovi.
LkmNv TIL that placebo (substance with no therapeutic value) is used not only in pharmacy to test drugs, but also in surgery to test the effect of intervention.It's called sham surgery, when surgical intervention omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. There was 53 sham surgery cases.