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TIL Of a recent group of parents who are actively trying to cure their childrens’ autism with daily bleach enemas and ingestion

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78GpO TIL About 70 percent of the material for the original Human Genome Project came from some dude in Buffalo, NY.
J1pNm TIL in 1722 Philip Ashton was captured by the pirate Ned Low although he eventually escaped in the spring of 1723 when the pirate landed at uninhabited Roatán island in the Gulf of Honduras. After the pirates stopped looking for him, he proceeded to survive 16 months as a castaway on the island.
nX9b TIL some shots of the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were secretly filmed during an actual parade. The production’s float was inserted into the parade “unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor”
6EEjm TIL drinking coffee is correlated with reduced mortality rates
o0nr TIL that Ray Dolby (the “Dolby” on audio equipment) helped develop the first videotape recorder before the age of 21. After founding Dolby Laboratories, he became a billionaire by charging little for his technology so others paid him instead of developing their own.