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TIL there is no scientific evidence that Chiropractic medicine has any medical benefit.

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m1Z7P TIL about the Cottingley Fairies, a hoax made by 2 young girls, that claimed to have photographed fairies in their back yard. They managed to fool Arthur Conan Doyle with this hoax.
m1DVR TIL that Tom Meighan, the original lead singer of rock band Kasabian, was fired from the band the day before he was to plead guilty to charges of assaulting his fiance, Vikki Ager. One year after pleading guilty to her assault and getting kicked out of the band, Meighan and Ager married.
wNVP TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting, mathematical correlation, the concept of “eugenics” and “nature vs nurture”, and the concept of inherited intelligence, with an estimated IQ of 200.
wL5Z1 TIL there exists a kind of garlic called "solo garlic" which doesn't have separate cloves but is just one solid piece.
Z8kXQ TIL that you are taller in the morning than you are at night. While we are lying down in a resting position, the spine is said to “spread out” or decompress, so when we wake in the morning we are taller after lying in bed all night.