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TIL Tu Youyou, a Chinese Nobel Laureate, discovered a treatment for malaria by reading an ancient Daoist text from 340 CE describing an herbal remedy for "intermittent fevers"

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pkXe TIL China considers pornography to be “spiritual pollution” and has banned it since 1949. Usually the punishment is just a fine and a warning, but in 2005 the creator of China’s biggest porn site was sentenced to life in prison.
loOK5 TIL That Crayola runs a recycling program for old markers to keep them out of landfills! Markers don’t even have to be Crayola brand and they still pay for shipping!
Mebom TIL Apple’s smartphone wasn’t the first iPhone, the first was made by Cisco 22 days earlier. The Cisco “iPhone” was a VoIP device that allowed its customers to use Skype without a computer. The companies later settled the trademark lawsuit, with both keeping rights to the iPhone name.
X0Bk6 TIL about George Epooch, a Jesuit priest who abused dozens of indigenous children throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s
OG4W6 TIL young, old, or stressed chickens can lay very small eggs (about the size of a nickel or quarter) with no yolks called fairy eggs.