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TIL There was a Doctor in Detroit who falsely diagnosed his patients with cancer so he can profit off their chemotherapy to fuel his opulent lifestyle.

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LkXmr TIL of pro-butter Senator Gordon Roselip. In a 1955 Wisconsin senatorial blind taste test Roselip preferred margarine, insisting it was butter. It later transpired that Roselip’s wife, worried about his heart, had for years been substituting yellow margarine for butter at the Senator’s dinner table.
mkZv TIL when corn was first utilized by colonists and Europeans, they ignored the Native American’s process of first treating it with lime-water, which makes available the corn’s niacin to the body. As a result of their dependence on the crop, hundreds of thousands died of Pellagra, a niacin deficiency.
x6oRw Today I learned the first vasectomy on record was performed on a dog in 1823.
x6JAb TIL The language Malayalam, spoken in Southern India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome
X0QbE TIL In Germany in 1923, 1 dollar reached a 4.2 trillion german marks conversion and a 100 trillion note was issued