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TIL the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was given to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for curing mental illness by giving patients malaria. (He was, in fact, curing them of syphilis because the malaria fevers are so high that they kill the bacteria. The malaria was subsequently cured with quinine.)

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epdXD TIL While common among humans, facial expressions of anger and aggression are rare in great apes, and are not described for gorillas and orangutans
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8yQZ TIL a 19 year old hacker hacked over 6500 credit cards, other hacker tracked his location and gave it to the FBI because he found him arrogant
N7vWE TIL about the Cagots, a highly persecuted minority on the French-Spanish border, who were the same ethnicity and religion as their persecutors.
D18Kr TIL that there were 104 new models of mobile phones introduced in 2010, more than in any other year