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TIL that a possible origin of acupuncture is based on Chinese doctors observations that soldiers wounded by arrows were cured of chronic afflictions

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VyL4 TIL Anderson Cooper visited two bonobo siblings who have been taught to use English through symbols, they requested that he bring pine needles and wear a bunny suit.
Z8kjD TIL the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was a pioneering facility for sexuality and gender studies which was set back incalculably after the Nazis burned all of their records in 1933.
1AVV TIL that the term “bug” is derived from the Middle English “bugge”, meaning beetle. Today, the word “bug” is a technical term, and describes any insect from the order Hemiptera.
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VgDB TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male.