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[TIL] Microbiologists recreated a 1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy which kills staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA.

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ADw6B TIL that in 2013, a truck hauling Cobalt-60, a radioactive isotope of cobalt often used in cancer treatment, was hijacked by thieves who were unaware of the truck's contents. The truck was found abandoned 2 days later in a cornfield near Mexico City, with the cobalt outside of its protective casing.
ddaQ TIL: a brutal form of execution in ancient China, the Waist Chop, was outlawed after a victim survived long enough to write the Chinese symbol for “miserable” seven times in his own blood.
KYEAw TIL that Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson.
mbay TIL Rick and Morty has 100% on Rotten Tomato’s
mxl6M TIL of Chen Sheng, a military captain who was ordered to lead 900 men to battle but realised he would not make it in time and that they would be executed. Instead he started a rebellion that led to the fall of the dynasty ruling at the time.