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R76Kl TIL Onions, traditionally known as fighting food,were fed to Greek athletes in training for the brutally competitive Olympics, and gladiators were massaged with onion juice before entering the arena.
R7ryQ TIL: Doctors in Italy fabricated a fake disease to fool the Nazis into avoiding local Jews. They brought them to the Hospital and called it Syndrome K (named after Nazi commander), warning soldiers that it was extremely contagious.
kJ6JW TIL that between 2016 and 2020 doctors in the USA surgically mutilated 48,000 people for profit
0d7j1 TIL that the legend of Saints Barlaam and Josaphat is inspired by the stories of the Buddha. This legand also inspired Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
PP6g TIL that George Washington was the first president to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College, and his Inauguration speech was less than 2 minutes long- the shortest of any president ever.