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TIL marijuana lessens side effects from treating hepatitis C and increases treatment effectiveness.

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xVMpB TIL that the country with the most airline accidents is Nepal with 9 crashes since 2010 (out of a total of 109 crashes) that resulted in 147 deaths.
wgY7 TIL that grasshoppers and locusts are the same insect. Harmless grasshoppers can undergo hormonal changes which transform them into the swarming monstrosities.
Ooj07 TIL Morphogenesis, the math behind for example a giraffes spots or a zebras stripes. This theory coined by Turing found that these apparently random patterns have a mathematic order.
agNb TIL It takes the whole year’s crop from one Cocoa tree to make 450gms of Chocolate.
e4l4 TIL that the primitive bobsled was built because some tourists got bored at a winter resort. The first luge track was built by the owner of that resort to keep them from bumping into pedestrians in 1870.