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TIL in a case study patients were given an experimental drug to treat their Parkinsons disease, 11 of the patients experienced intense urges to gamble their money despite little interest in gambling before. Even losing large sums of money. All the patients stopped gambling when tapered off the meds.

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wLKZJ TIL German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine once wrote in a play from 1821, "Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." Over a century later, copies of Heine's books were among the many burned in Berlin's Opernplatz.
BrM6e TIL of Hitchens's razor. Basically: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"
rAM4 TIL that you can embed secret messages in vocal music that emege only when multiple people start singing
1Nd4 TIL Theodore Roosevelt Jr was the only general to land on the beaches during D-Day. Although he was the oldest man on the beach and walked with a cane, he was the first man out of his landing craft. He recited poetry and joked with his men to keep them calm. He was awarded the Medal of Honor.
DQgLY TIL because of the US Neutrality act at the start of WWII, the US delivered planes to the US-Canadian border and Britain pulled the across using horses or trucks.