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TIL that They Used to Use Malaria to Treat Syphilis

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OoaAg TIL that in languages where spelling is highly phonetic (e.g. Italian) often lack an equivalent verb for "to spell". To clarify, one will often ask "how is it written?" and the response will be a careful pronunciation of the word, since this is sufficient to spell it.
pNYO TIL that Lee Jong-rak created a “baby box”. He built it beside his house to allow parents to deposit their mentally handicapped or unwanted babies, to stop them being abandoned on the side of the road.
kOJj1 TIL that there are still forgotten caches of incendiary grenades buried around Britain, for use by the Home Guard during WWII.
eNbD TIL that, due to human interaction, Domestic Sheep have evolved to require humans to shear them. Their wool never sheds.
aDK0 TIL Scots didn’t wear kilts until three centuries after the period depicted by the film “Braveheart.”