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TIL research has found that ecstasy has robust anticancer properties, particularly for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

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WVgB TIL that a woman threatened to sue MGM after viewing the 1932 movie Freaks, claiming it caused her to miscarry. The movie features actually deformed circus “freaks”, and has been banned in Ireland, Sweden, the UK, and several other areas over the years.
6jpw TIL In 1939, the famous and notorious gangster, Al Capone donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to the former Union Memorial Hospital in return for the excellent treatment and care he was offered and one of the trees still remains and blossoms outside the East 33rd Street entrance each spring.
gMV5L TIL that a fake city of 30,000 was built in Tennessee during World War II as a front for a nuclear research facility
OG4Xe TIL about The Tarasque, a creature from French mythology. According to the Golden Legend, the beast had a lion-like head, a body protected by turtle-like carapace(s), six feet with bear-like claws, a serpent's tail, and could expel a poisonous breath.
Dd8V TIL The US Air Force seeded clouds to extend the monsoon season over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam between 1967 and 72. This lead to a 1977 international treaty outlawing weather warfare.