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TIL The City of Providence, Rhode Island doesn’t allow for overnight parking and tickets anyone who violates the rule. However, the city has no street signs telling visitors this, making $$$ off of tickets from surprised drivers.

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pYo5b TIL that the placebo effect can have measureable physical effects on the body such as immune response and inflammation
4XpEN TIL Dennis Quaid’s face appeared on warning labels of vials of blood thinner Heparin to remind nurses not to accidentally inject patients with high concentration doses after Quaid’s newborn twins almost died of an accidental overdose
R7aAQ TIL the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded whiskey during the last few days of his life.
6nPX TIL Berthold Stauffenberg, brother of Claus von Stauffenberg (chief conspirator in 20 July assasination plot to kill Hitler) was executed by being strangled and then revived multiple times. The execution and multiple resuscitations were filmed for Hitler to view at his leisure.
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