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TIL that snake oil is actually an effective inhibitor of inflammation that was disparaged by US sellers of patent medicine to the extent that snake-oil continues to have a bad name to the present day.

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NNgJ Today I learned that the basis for incorrect and false descriptions of the Iraqi chemical weapons program was a 1998 action movie called The Rock starring Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris.
QJxDd TIL that Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was so goth that she lost her virginity on her mom's grave
lPkN TIL that American adults have higher scientific literacy than European or Japanese adults despite the USA’s poor reputation in education
woxJW TIL the moon's orbit around the sun is almost a perfect circle instead of a spiral. In order for it to become a spiral, it would have to orbit around earth 30x faster.
4195 TIL that surgeon Robert J. White transplanted the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes and lived for nine days.