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TIL MDMA (Ecstasy) is currently being investigated to treat social anxiety in autism

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GAm84 TIL about the No Surprises Act, which was enacted to, among other things, mandate in-network payments to out-of-network providers. If a person has to go to an ED, they no longer have to worry about it being out of network.
5Vgbr TIL - The Stone of Destiny, an ancient stone on which Scottish monarchs had been crowned, was taken from Scotland, by King Edward I of England in 1296, and in 1950 4 Scottish students from the University of Glasgow stole the Stone from Westminster Abbey in London and took it back to Scotland
neZjW TIL that after being banned from advertising in Formula 1, tobacco companies have found a loophole allowing them to sidestep bans by establishing social responsibility groups with insanely vague mission statements and no purpose. They remain major sponsors of teams in 2020.
8aW8G TIL in 2017, several Soviet Time Capsules were unearthed on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution. They were buried at the 50th anniversary in 1967 and contained a lot of hopeful writings for 2017.
7KEp TIL the number of syllables in each lyrical phrase of the song Lateralus by Tool correspond with the fibonacci sequence.