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TIL Horses are injected with snake venom to produce antivenom

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ANwwx TIL There were experiments conducted in the 1950s where researchers gave their subjects manual control over the pleasure centers of their brains through the click of a button, wired to surgically implanted electrodes.
1RoP TIL that in 1924, chess player and Russian world champion Richard Réti played 29 blindfold chess games simultaneously, then forgot his briefcase at the event when he left.
Jb5V TIL a stray dog saved a woman after she crashed down an embankment and was thrown through the back window of her car. The German Shepherd emerged from the woods, pulled her by the collar off the trunk and 50 yards through the briars to the road where she could be seen by passing motorists.