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TIL that Richard Branson sued the NHS in 2017

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eXyD TIL the three member crew of NASA’s Skylab 4 mission staged a one-day mutiny where they shut off all communication with ground control and spent the day relaxing and looking at the Earth.
awgDZ TIL A roman scholar predicted microbiology over 2000 years ago, writing "there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."
ONER TIL that there is a field of study that focuses on ‘primate archeology’. This field believes that certain primates have entered their own stone age.
kZ4B TIL that in 1961 Belgians, with CIA involvement, ordered the murder of a democratically elected Prime Minister of Congo who just wanted for the Congolese to regain the natural resources still being under foreign control since the colonial times
VBGo8 TIL: Butt plugs were invented in the 1890s to cure insanity. Dr. Young's Ideal Rectal Dilators came in sets of four varying in diameter from half an inch to 4 inches. Dr. Young admitted that some patients panicked at the sight of the devices.