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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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nWxn7 TIL about the "Phantom Time Hypothesis," which suggests that 297 years of European history were entirely fabricated, and that we may actually be living in the year 1726.
JAml TIL that Mormons receive a “new name” in their temples which they must “never reveal, except at a certain place,” that nearly 2000 new names have been submitted to a website, and that the new name is apparently currently determined by simply which day of the month the person receives it.
VMrv0 TIL about Pontiac’s War, the most successful First Nation resistance against European invasion in North America. It resulted in British Reforms to maintain a strong and expensive army presence and consequently tax the colonies to fund the army, which led the way for the American Revolution.
v10wr TIL about Kerogen, a solid, insoluble organic matter found in the sedimentary rocks. When continually heated, it leads to the slow release of fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas.
lYRN TIL To guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier you must be in superb condition, have a perfect military record, be 5'10"-6'4", a proportionate weight/build, memorize 7 pages of history, recited verbatim, learn grave locations of 300 vets. After several months, they’re tested on the cemetery and Tomb.