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TIL: The U.S. government has ordered that homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work.

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woOJ7 TIL: In 1947, after the Italian bomber corps was disbanded post-WWII, some planes of ambiguous purpose were transferred, pending status clarity, to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the sovereign successors of the Knights Hospitaller of Crusader fame. The planes were later returned to Italy.
864G TIL The microscopic structures of dried human tears differ according to the type of crying:the molecular structure of tears of grief are different from tears of joy.
jNNmE TIL that as a part of his celibacy experiments, Mahatma Gandhi used to sleep nude with his young female companions which included his 17 year old grand-niece Mridula Gandhi
AD1dB TIL that the US was so short on rubber during WWII that it imposed a speed limit of 35mph to preserve car tires. It was called the "Victory Speed Limit".
p8AZb TIL The Earth has what can poetically called it's "Heartbeat". Lightning flashes set up the resonance pattern that surrounds Earth.After bouncing off the ionosphere, the electromagnetic waves from a single lightning burst interact with and amplify other waves,setting up the Schumann Resonance.