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TIL 10,000+ toddlers age 2-3 are being prescribed Ritalin and Adderall to treat behavioral disorder

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NQY6 TIL Jamie Oliver took Mc Donalds to court to change the recipe of their meat and won, and have started making healthier meat since then.
PY4OJ TIL Amerigo Vespucci (and by extension, America) may have been named after St. Emericus of Hungary. St. Emericus died at 24 during a boar hunt, and was only canonized 52 years later after a series of miracles occured at his grave. His bones were dug up for the ceremony.
95OM TIL that prior to 1987, babies were given even major surgery, such as open-heart surgery, entirely without anesthesia and post-operative pain management. It was honestly believed that infants couldn’t feel pain.
BgeOb TIL The USA boycotted the 1980 summer olympics because it was held in Moscow
4kkON TIL: James Doohan, Scotty from Star Trek, landed on Juno Beach as a soldier in the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day.