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TIL in 1988 NASCAR used falsified drug tests to keep a driver with AIDS (Tim Richmond) from driving.

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roNM TIL cracking your knuckles does not cause arthritis or increase your risk
ryvw TIL that scientists were able to transplant eye primordia (bits of flesh that eventually grow into eyes) from one tadpole’s head to another’s posterior. Many of the new eyes formed neural pathways to the spine - bypassing the brain altogether - and gave the tadpoles sight.
0wLby TIL experts believe that the elephants that live in Sri Lanka are the progeny of elephants that swam across from Southern India across the sea in search of food and water.
Wn9 TIL Super Glue effectively closes wounds, and was credited with saving many lives in Vietnam.
Zp7Lp TIL that two dim stars from the Big Dipper served as an ancient eye test. If you had lived in the time of the early Romans and could see them, you would have been eligible to be an archer in the Roman army.