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TIL Betty Crocker was never real

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YY6d TIL Over the objections of their supervisors and colleagues, Dr. Emil Freireich and Dr. Emil Frei tackled children’s Leukemia with combination chemotherapy with four different kind of drugs. Today, the cure rate for this form of cancer is more than 90 percent.
Mepjb TIL flea circuses used actual fleas, and one reason they died out is because human hygiene improved so circuses ran out of performers.
loYaa TIL about Typhoid Mary: the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. In her job as a cook she infected 51 people. She was forcibly isolated for 3 years; being released on the promise she didn’t return to cooking. She did return, was caught and confined for the remainder of her life (23 years).
9w18X TIL Caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy, it works by blocking adenosine, a neurotransmitter in your brain that makes you feel sleepy. By doing so, caffeine keeps you alert and awake.
QJGrX TIL Gene Roddenberry never gave Captain Kirk a birthplace more specific than the state of Iowa. In 1985, when trying to find a theme for its annual festival, the town of Riverside voted to proclaim itself the future birthplace of the Starfleet officer. Roddenberry gave the town his blessing.