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TIL that the study that stated that the MMR vaccine can cause autism was scientifically discredited.

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Meg8 TIL the Bush administration paid the Taliban $43mil months before 9/11…
Bkdx TIL that ketamine, psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD (acid), and MDMA (ecstacy) are being used to treat depression and mental illness.
wLgbY TIL that there's a farmer in South Africa who has bred ducks for many years. He uses the ducks instead of pesticides on his farm. Every morning he assembles over 1,000 ducks into a line to go and pluck the pests out of his vineyard.
GYGWg TIL that in 2010, the Colombian government successfully transmitted a Morse message to their captive soldiers by composing a song popular enough to hit local top 40 radio and disguising the Morse Code in a synth interlude
eBML TIL 85% of soldiers who commit suicide have never seen combat and more than half haven’t been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.