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TIL that Chiropractic Medicine is pure quackery!

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ONL6 Montreal’s subway trains use brake shoes made from wood soaked in peanut oil. They are quieter and don’t wear out metal wheels as much as more conventional alternatives.
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n7bG TIL that you cannot work in Antarctica unless your wisdom teeth and appendix are removed
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pKMA TIL that Seattle changed Columbus day to indigenous peoples day in 2014 to acknowledge that native Americans were living in the Americas long before Columbus “discovered” it.