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TIL that children with autism experienced significantly decreased behavioral and cognitive symptoms after receiving a fecal transplant

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epdbL TIL that 20% of scientific genetics research papers have errors due to Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting of gene names into dates
wLQvY TIL in 2016 a British reality show about surviving the wilderness of the Scottish highlands, but was cancelled after 4 episodes. The producers decided not to tell contestants that the show had been cancelled and allowed them to continue living in the wilderness for over a year to no end.
ADbgo TIL that eating raw or undercooked Shiitake mushrooms, causes a dermatological condition that causes primarily an itchy whiplash like rash, called shiitake mushroom flagellate dermatitis
wo8Mo TIL that between 1945 and 1947, the US government injected 30 civilians with radioactive elements, most of whom gave no consent and had no knowledge of what the injection actually was
4XP1a TIL Brenda E. Robinson was the first African American female pilot in US Navy history in 1980