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TIL Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs to experience withdrawal from

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eQeg TIL that in September 2005, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko sacked the entire government in an effort to curb corruption.
R5766 TIL that Seahorses are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth. When mating the female deposits her eggs into the male's brood pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases baby seahorses into the water
8aP5P TIL that in 2009, British PM Gordon Brown hand-wrote a letter of condolence to a mother whose son had died in Afghanistan, in which he misspelled the son's surname. The Sun (a tabloid) wrote a scathing article criticizing his mistake. In this article, the paper misspelled the same name.
oRe5L Today I learned that the opposite of the placebo effect is called the nocebo effect, and occurs when a patient, believing he is taking a drug, is likely to recreate, by suggestion, side effects he may have heard about, or simply read about on the médication package.
PYNeJ TIL that USA not only refused to pay reparations to Vietnam but also asked them to return the money "South Vietnam borrowed".