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TIL LSD has been shown to treat alcoholism five times more effectively than Alcoholics Anonymous.

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8a6R8 TIL that in the 1952 polio epidemic in Denmark, mortality was over 85 per cent due to a shortage of respirators. Dr Bjorn Ibsen invented a new kind of ventilator, proved it worked and then recruited thousands of volunteers to hand-pump them for weeks (they were fully manual). Mortality fell to 26%.
neREB TIL colonies on Mars could use astronauts' blood and urine mixed with Martian dust to make concrete.
9YKrM TIL that the band Lynrd Skynrd got its name as a tribute to their PE teacher - Leonard Skinner
D1wBj TIL: Hugh Hefner published nude pictures of Marilyn Monroe without her permission in the first edition of Playboy magazine. He later purchased the crypt besides her's even though they had never met in life.
9dAp TIL During the 2001 Presidential Clinton-Bush transition, 62 new White House staff discovered the W key missing from their keyboards