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TIL that Chiropractors are not a type of medical doctor, cannot practice medicine, and Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine like acupuncture.

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xVV4D TIL before Sony stopped supporting OtherOS, the PS3 was such an effective Linux system, institutions like University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Carolina State University & the U.S Armed Forces used PS3 clusters making an affordable high-performance computing system to create a supercomputer.
rR8le TIL Antidote for poisoning consisting of 65 components was named Mithridate after its inventor King Mithridates VI. The King fortified his body with it so well that when he tried to kill himself with poison not to surrender, he failed and had to ask a soldier to pierce him with the sword.
M7JnV TIL that when “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it got booed hard by the audience. Ed Norton said that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said: “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.”
awQRN TIL that the Breaking Bad team was offered $75 million to produce three additional episodes after the final season. This much money was stated to be more than the profits they had made in five years. The team refused, saying that the final episodes did not lend themselves to additional installments.
XNX8 TIl Forensic Lip Readers have analyzed silent footage from World War 1 and were able to reconstruct conversations that were previously thought to be lost in time.