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TIL that Ancient Egyptians and Nubians drank large quantities of beer containing an antibiotic, tetracycline, not discovered by modern scientists until 1948.

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aw5g0 TIL more than a dozen vulnerable people were involuntarily injected with plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project, in order to learn the human biological reaction to radiation poisoning
OZ8a TIL 3 people were hanged for the 1660 murder of William Harrison in the year 1661. In 1662, William Harrison returned on a ship after escaping slavery, having been kidnapped by pirates. This lead to the “no body, no murder” rule.
9pdG TIL that Julia Child kept her phone number listed publicly. Anyone could just call her at home for cooking advice. Apparently on Christmas and Thanksgiving her phone rang nonstop and she took every call. What a woman!
kJdXW TIL that children who were injured from a fall before the age of nine are less likely to be scared of heights when they get older.
0wJBj TIL In 1989, Russian psychic E. Frenkel was run over by a train while attempting to stop it with his psychic-biological power, after previously ‘successfully’ stopping a car and streetcar.