› added 6 months ago

21

TIL that bloodletting is still practiced in modern medicine to treat few diseases, including hemochromatosis (increased iron accumulation in the body).

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

nWrxB TIL that Town Line, New York voted 85 to 40 to secede from Union along with the Confederacy, and did not rejoin the Union until 1946.
RaL1 TIL that the resistance of the wealthy to paying taxes was one of the factors contributing to the collapse of the Roman Empire.
4XXNb TIL The suns diameter is 864,000 miles & There are 86,400 seconds in a day on earth.
DWEj TIL 70% of African-American children and 58% of Hispanic children do not know how to swim compared to 40% white children.
KOV1B TIL “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” is a typing drill written by a teacher named Charles E. Weller. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” is now used instead, because it exactly fills out a 70-space line.