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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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9wOJB TIL that Norman Rockwell attempted to enlist in the Navy during WW1 but was unsuccessful due to being 8 pounds underweight. He was able to enlist the next day after consuming a substantial amount of food, including bananas, liquids, and doughnuts.
KVVE TIL kids computers in the 80’s and 90’s came with BASIC computer program training, because people believed every citizen needed to know computer programming or they would be left out of the computer revolution.
kMEg TIL that the reason we have access to so much free online porn, is mostly because of a man named Fabian Thylmann, who bought up many of the paid pornography sites and made them free; gaining revenue through ads instead.
e0mNk TIL that the Iceman was the 19th century equivalent of the milkman or mailman having affairs with lonely housewives. There was even a hit Vaudeville song “How’d You Like to Be the Iceman?” and a peep show with a housewife kissing an ice delivery man.
YoPx TIL All domesticated hamsters are descendents from a single brother sister pair that was found in Aleppo. They were bred in Jerusalem by a guy named Israel.