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TIL a nine-year-old girl’s science project thoroughly discredited Therapeutic Touch as a healing tool. The study was published in the JAMA, and it’s use in medical settings declined rapidly.

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x6lED TIL Italo Balbo, the Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa, was shot down by Italian forces. Balbo had been a famed aviator so the British RAF dropped a condolence reef at a nearby airfield.
8aA1X TIL that until 1953, New York City had a pneumatic tube mail network that spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 letters a day.
DQlJ TIL Pocahontas was only 11 when she met the 28 year old John Smith
neYko TIL the USSR considered Darwinian evolution a lie created by "bourgeois capitalism", and instead opted for Lamarckian evolution for political reasons. The failure of Soviet biologists to acknowledge natural selection resulted in a series of crop failures and food shortages.
neNLd TIL there's a hidden room behind Lincoln's head on Mount Rushmore