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TIL that They Used to Use Malaria to Treat Syphilis

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WkGd TIL that because of noise ordinance laws in Europe, club owners have created “ silent discos ” where club goers listen to music through headphones.
JY80k TIL Warren Zevon's famous "Werewolves of London" was the product of Phil Everly jokingly telling Zevon to adapt the title of the film Werewolf of London into a song and dance craze. Zevon and others wrote the song in 15 minutes
Wkr19 TIL that in the 1940s, the USSR had a program designed to study the excrement of foreign leaders. It was believed that traces of various compounds in feces could give insights into each leader's psychology.
xe0w TIL UPS gets 15,000 parking tickets in New York a month
JY5rl TIL The first time an event had a bigger TV audience than radio audience was the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.