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TIL That The US Army Medical Corps Logo Uses the Historically Incorrect 'Staff and Snake' Symbol. In Greek Mythology, A Staff With One Snake Represents Healing and Medicine, but the Two Snakes Version (which is used by the USAMC) is Actually a "Herald's Rod" That Represents Diplomacy and Commerce.

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wLy6o TIL in the 60s, NASA gave dolphins LSD in an attempt to get them to speak. A female researcher lived in a partially submerged house with one of these dolphins. It would become sexually aroused and attack her, so she started giving it handjobs
VMXJB TIL NFL & NBA Cheerleaders Make Less Than $1000 A Year
WkkPd TIL about Henrietta Laacks, who died in 1951, yet her tumor cells have been cultivated to this day. The immortal cell line is used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line.
0aW1 TIL that monosodium glutamate (MSG) has no extraordinary negative effect on the human body, contrary to common perception
GYb1Q TIL of Masanobu Tsuji, a Japanese war criminal who executed POWs on Bataan, fled to Indochina, and disappeared into Laos in 1961. He was later rumored to be working for North Vietnam. A CIA report said he was "the type of man who would start World War III without any misgivings."