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TIL in Idaho, at least 12 children of faith healers have died as a result of medically-preventable conditions since 2011 but as of November 2014 no charges have been filed. Idaho’s religious exemption law describes prayer as a spiritual “treatment” that can act as a legal substitute for medical care

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p8Ngb TIL in 1987, the Burmese government demonetised the 25-, 35-, and 75-kyats notes without warning or compensation, rendering around 75% of the country's currency worthless and eliminating the savings of millions of Burmese. Dictator Ne Win did it bc the notes weren't divisible by his lucky number, 9.
p8RY4 TIL a Scottish man fasted for 382 days, living on vitamin supplements and non-caloric beverages. He was morbidly obese, weighing 456 pounds, and lost 276 pounds. The fast was monitored by doctors, who detected no ill-effects. He never regained the weight. It was the longest recorded fast in history.
GYWZN TIL ELO's first album "The Electric Light Orchestra" has a different name in the US. The american record company tried to call and confirm the name of the album. When they failed to reach anyone on the phone, they wrote down "No Answer", which someone misconstrued as the name of the album.
WM6N TIL George Lucas was in debt after building Skywalker Ranch and producing the bomb “Howard the Duck”, so he sold the Lucasfilm CGI division to Steve Jobs, which later became Pixar.
LBMQ TIL that The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s largest single machine and it crosses the border between Switzerland and France at four points, with most of it in France.