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TIL Emily Rosa became the youngest person to publish in a medical journal (at 11 years old) when her school science project was published. It demonstrated that Reiki (a type of alternative medicine) practitioners could not detect the alleged "life force" under experimental conditions.

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JDvv TIL Charles XII of Sweden was embalmed well enough to recognize his features when exhumed 200 years after his death. Photographs show the gunshot wound to his head that killed him.
p4r4 TIL Richard “Cheech” Marin beat Anderson Cooper in Jeopardy! Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational.
4XY7N TIL an indigenous people, the Mapuche, successfully repelled the Spanish colonizing force, costing the most Spanish lives of any conflict in the New World. The conflict is considered one of the longest wars in history
awgL TIL The majority of child abuse victims are not traumatized by their experience and in fact go along with it only to later feel guilty for not feeling the way society tells them they should
9Yjar TIL the Statue of Liberty almost wasn't built in New York because the governor wouldn't use city funds to build its pedestal, but Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper articles inspired 160,000 people to donate. Though a majority of donations were less than $1, they raised over $100,000 in just five months.