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TIL that maggot therapy is a medical practice used to clean wounds and promote healing by using live maggots to eat dead tissue

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5jP9 TIL while giving a speech in the US in 1965, the Canadian PM criticized US bombing in Vietnam. Before he finished his speech, he was summoned to meet with US President Lyndon Johnson the next day. Johnson reportedly grabbed him and shouted, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”
BgdwL TIL that Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. It may further attribute a life force to abstract concepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology.
KObww TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.
VMwpB TIL that during the Cold War, the USSR mapped the entire world to precise detail. The U.S State Department still uses the maps today due to their accuracy.
NXRN TIL Eddie Van Halen actually started out playing the drums. He bought a drum set and his brother bought a guitar. When his brother got better at the drums than him, Eddie said “OK, fuck you, I’ll play your guitar.”