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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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6l78 TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy
e0ng5 TIL The band Oasis, after having technical difficulties at a large gig, issued refund checks with the bands branding on hoping fans would keep them as collectibles instead of cashing them in; it worked
p1r4 TIL the WaterSaver Faucet Company began disciplining workers for “excessive use” of the bathroom, meaning they used their allocated six minutes per business day. They also gave workers gift cards as rewards for not using the bathroom at all in a day.
jNrBM TIL While peanut allergies are a common high risk allergy in the United States, Central Europe deals with Celery allergies. Celery is such a danger to certain individuals that the EU had to enact labeling laws for products containing celery derived ingredients.
N7LnM TIL about Dr. Robert Heath, who drilled holes in a gay mans skull, inserted electrodes in brain regions responsible for pleasure and arousal and zapped him while having sex with a female prostitute in order to find a „cure“ for homosexuality.