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TIL a test to determine whether a person is susceptible to catch scarlet fever is called "The Dick test" after its inventor.

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r6ew TIL of the acting agency “Amputees in Action,” which provides amputee actors to simulate gore and missing limbs in war movies like Saving Private Ryan.
e0PE6 TIL that in 1962, elephant bones were discovered under the Vatican. Decades later, it was discovered that they were the bones of Pope Leo X's pet elephant Hanno, who died in 1516 after doctors (in an attempt to treat constipation) inserted a gold enema up its rectum.
9Y5OB TIL of Tell Abu Hureyra, oldest known farming site in the world.
w977 TIL ticks are not insects but arachnids with 8 legs and are evolutionary related to mites.
ky04 TIL Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. He coined the term “Frown Power” when he started a campaign with that name, which simply encouraged people to pointedly frown when they heard bigoted speech.