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TIL Rollercoasters can cure kidney stones by "literally rattling the stone loose."

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9wwd7 TIL about the psychology experiment that helped prove how easy it is to extract a false confession from an innocent person.
R7LY6 TIL In 1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace
5YlA8 TIL "Jazz" was originally "Jass" but the term was changed because children and some adults could not resist the temptation to scratch the letter "J" from the posters
dE5r TIL of Gerald Mellin committed suicide by tying one end of a rope to a tree and putting the other end around his neck, he then drove away from the tree in his Aston Martin. He was decapitated.
XE1BD TIL of the Sack of Rome in 390 BC. After the Romans were routed and the city was all but destroyed, the Romans figured their only decision was to pay the invaders to leave. It worked.