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TIL: Dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's Disease are cause by mechanisms similar to that a Prions

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WKeX TIL Alexander Hamilton and James Madison both claimed to have written numbers 49-58 and 62-63 of the Federalist Papers. In 1964, a computer analysis of the text revealed that Madison was indeed the author of all 12 of those essays, despite Hamilton’s claim to the contrary.
6EQBZ TIL that a.m. stands for ante meridiem, Latin for before midday, and p.m. stands for post meridiem, Latin for past midday.
0dA7v TIL the roar in the MGM lion is really a tiger
nW8O7 TIL of Micheal Swango an American doctor estimated to have killed 60 patients and colleagues
awBJ TIL that Vasili Arkhipov was a soviet submariner who, during the Cuban missile crisis, talked his captain down from firing a nuclear torpedo at US destroyers.