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TIL Experimental drugs, which are proven safe and effective when tested in animals, fail 80 percent of the time when tested in people.

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9YxLm [TIL] Thebes had a special forces military unit comprised entirely of Homosexual Couples. The belief was that couples on the battlefield would fight their hardest to protect their lovers and not flee for fear of looking weak in front of their significant others.
4nVb TIL: You can actually die from a broken heart
p8awZ TIL Over 60 million cigarette butts have been collected on beaches making them the single greatest source of ocean trash.
14oP TIL that there’s a stinky, phallus-shaped mushroom can instantly trigger an intense female orgasm
YpZJZ TIL that in 1970, a fighter pilot was forced to eject during a training mission. His plane, however, righted itself and continued flying for miles, finally touching down gently in a farmer's field. It earned the nickname "The Cornfield Bomber."