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TIL: The story that Victorian-era doctors used vibrators to treat female "hysteria" is an historical myth

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4wRo TIL Hannibal Lecter was making a medical joke with his famous “ate his liver with fava beans and a nice chianti” line: three foods that interact negatively with older kinds of antidepressant meds are liver, beans and wine.
yVKB8 TIL the phrase "under god" wasn't in the original Pledge of Allegiance, and wasn't added until 1954
DG5g TIL as young actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire blocked the release of a film they starred in as it debased their clean images. After settling a lawsuit filed against them by the film’s producer it remains unreleased in the US.
Yyg7 TIL that the war on drugs was persecuted as a personal crusade by one man. During his 31 year career,Harry Anslinger helped shape global drugs policy and ordered that a dying Billie Holiday be handcuffed to her death bed
7rlJ7 TIL Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers: 2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent.