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Today I Learned that Roman doctors used to drink their patients urine in order to diagnose disease, such as diabetes.

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m15bp TIL sine and cosine waves are actually a spiral in 3D. The 2D version is just a side view of the spiral.
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pYaD8 TIL that Dee Bradley Baker was the voice of Olmec on Legends of the Hidden Temple
kOY7W TIL sci-fi author Andy Weir chose Kenya as the global capital for the space industry in a book because it's on the equator, which makes it cheaper to launch to low Earth orbit, because it only takes 1/15th the velocity to launch from there.
xe8D TIL Actress Carey Mulligan and singer Marcus Mumford were childhood penpals. They lost touch, reconnected as adults, and eventually married.