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TIL that in Austria, public insurance requires scientific proof of effectiveness in order to reimburse medical treatments, but exceptions are made for homeopathy.

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byXE TIL that because of the urban myth in the ‘60s and '70s that trick-or-treaters were given candy apples with razor blades in them, hospitals offered free x-rays for any candy apple given to children during the Halloween season.
QNnvE TIL that Sylvester Graham (of Graham Cracker fame), the original clean-eating guru and vegetarian pioneer who shunned alcohol, lust, meat, and even white bread, died at age 57 of complications from an opium enema
oPY7 TIL JFK Warned About Secret Societies and the Danger of the Media Reporting On Trivial Matters for Entertainment Instead of News
rNlW4 TIL NASA considers kidney stones, and their current treatment options, to be an unacceptable risk for a human/Mars mission.
MRga TIL: “Memes” are a scientific term for memetics and basically categorized as mental “virus” or “parasites” where they “infect” hosts to spread self replicating ideas…