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TIL that in 2004, then-Prince Charles endorsed a controversial cancer treatment that discourages the use of chemotherapy, in favor of patients instead taking 13 fruit juices daily, weekly injections of vitamins, and coffee enemas

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ZpElY TIL Prosecutors at the trial of Andreas Hofer, leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against Napoleon's forces in 1809, were struggling with deciding on how to sentence him until they received a note from Napoleon's viceroy: it said "give him a fair trial, then shoot him"
v1op8 TIL the words you use when questioning witnesses greatly affects their answer. They showed study participants video of a car crash and asked them to estimate the speed. Their estimates got progressively larger when using the verbs contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed in the question.
wo5ro TIL that guard geese were used to protect American military installations in West Germany in 1986
YMBW TIL that patients who are informed what drug they are going to be trialling, and are then placed on a placebo, can experience adverse reactions as well as positive outcomes. They can also become addicted to placebo medication.
MVA0 TIL Jimi Hendrix covered Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band live just three days after it was released, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the audience. It was never performed live by The Beatles.