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TIL that Homeopathy 'treatments' in the US must be labelled to say they do not work

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epDDg TIL After plagiarizing work for his directorial debut, actor Shia LaBeouf plagiarized a public apology from a Yahoo! answers question about plagiarism.
oZYY TIL That the US Navy trialled a form of active camouflage called Yehudi lights on torpedo bombers during WWII
kyXe TIL China has cities that were made to look like Paris, London, Venice and many more
x6Ay0 TIL The Cranberries' "Dreams" made them very popular in Hong Kong after a Cantonese cover by Faye Wong was featured in the film Chungking Express (1994).
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.