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TIL that paramedics are trained not to run to patients, as walking keeps them calmer on arrival and more likely to take in the situation.

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VBXx8 TIL The bones of the fallen soldiers at Waterloo were exhumed from mass graves, ground down into bone-meal and used in the production of sugar at nearby sugar manufacturing plants. Also bones of the fallen were commonly ground into bone-meal and used as fertilizer.
G44Q TIL Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a student, and inspired him to promote the drug outside of the experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.
8eGPL TIL During the Cold War the USA & UK Government Did Human Plutonium testing on Cancer Patients , Pregnant woman and dead babies without the knowledge of anyone
ZpxDY TIL out of 465 documented cases of medical self-experimentation, 8 cases resulted in the self-experimenter’s death. 7 resulted in their winning a Nobel Prize. Another 5 won a Nobel for unrelated work.
PQKZ TIL that More people download apps on Dec. 25 largely because more people receive new phones on that day than any other