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TIL a systematic review of homeopathic medicine found it was effective in treating 0 out of 68 illnesses and was essentially just a placebo.

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9mvD TIL that ‘The Princess Bride’ had a proposed sequel of which one chapter was written called 'Buttercup’s Baby.’ It involved the kidnapping of the baby and ended with Fezzik sacrificing his life to save her.
YpDn7 TIL: A Hungarian man wrote a book on how to raise a genius, raising three daughters with the methods he pioneered, using chess as an example. His youngest daughter is Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time.
mDpE TIL Babe Ruth once tried cricket. Finding the cricket stance uncomfortable he decided to use his baseball stance. He destroyed the bat and sent the ball flying multiple times, but lost interest in the sport after he heard what the best cricket batsmen were paid: a mere $40 a week.
Kaoa TIL the Disney animated Jungle Book character, King Louie, is an Orangutan but in the live action version they changed him to a Gigantopithecus. Although extinct they once lived in forest throughout India, which avoids the movie perpetuating a geographic fallacy.
rRbed TIL: A lot of games and companies misuse the red cross. Although, it is protected by international law and the Geneva conventions. It is indeed illegal and punishable for unauthorized use of the red cross and red crescent.