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TIL that 2 dogs were executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials

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W7xk8 TIL that people in sunny tropical countries can be Vitamin D deficient
P1GE TIL in the 50s physicians performed accurate pregnancy tests by injecting urine from the supposedly pregnant women into a frog. If the frog produced eggs within 24 hrs the test was positive.
WM7A TIL Dr. Dre’s son died of a heroin overdose in 2008
DQe0P TIL that in 2012 scientists genetically modified a bird flu virus, which had a 60% human mortality rate, to aerosolize it in order to 'more effectively manage the trajectory of pandemic viruses'. It scared them so badly that they paused all research for months
dD7QK TIL the Amazon River discharges more water than the next 7 largest rivers in the world combined!