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

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nWepb TIL: In 1909, Helen Taft, wife of President William Howard Taft, drove an electric car. It was a Baker Motor Vehicle and one of the cars in the White House fleet.
Z8JrQ TIL about the Kentucky meat shower of 1876, where pieces of meat appeared to fall on Bath County. One theory is that a flock of vultures vomited in the area; the meat was said to taste like lamb or deer. Another is that the meat was a cyanobacteria which expands to a jelly-like mass when wet.
R7xnj TIL that despite being played over 10 million times, Van Morrison has never received ANY royalties from "Brown Eyed Girl".
d968 TIL that a study of Reddit found that half of the most popular submissions got no votes when they were originally made and only became popular after being reposted.
lrXr TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t vote in any country, ever.