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TIL that all the contributors of the psuedoscientifc AIDS denial magazine ‘Continuum’ died of clinical conditions caused by AIDS

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Y7vZr TIL in the US only, the strength of the placebo effect is so high that drug companies have trouble getting new painkillers approved through clinical trials.
XEb1Q TIl the 1989 teen fantasy comedy "Teen Witch" was originally pitched as the female version of "Teen Wolf"
X0eJ6 TIL Prehistoric monkeys migrated from Africa to South America by traversing the Atlantic Ocean on natural rafts
VvAG TIL Between 2012 and 2014 France had a 75% super tax on earnings above €1m
j67wQ TIL that when Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers at the beginning of the Civil War, he did not include the states of California or Oregon because the transcontinental railroad hadn't been completed yet.