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TIL that prior to 1993 the FDA banned women from participating in clinical trials. This resulted in a dangerous lack of awareness about how certain drugs impacted women and has led to misunderstandings about how certain diseases affect men and women differently that persist today.

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0wlLj TIL Italy is the country with the highest variety of cheeses in the world, with over 2,500 traditional varieties
Meo60 TIL that in 1975, three men were wrongfully convicted of murder. Their conviction was solely based on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who claimed he’d seen them commit the crime. They were only fully exonerated in 2014, when the boy- now an adult, recanted his testimony.
gvj4 TIL that when Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd would rob banks he he would destroy or steal the mortgages to local farms.
nW7nP TIL In order to work in the CIA cafeteria, a candidate needs to pass a Top Secret SCI background check.
VM4J4 TIL that one part of Operation Anadyr, the Soviet Deception plan preceding the Cuban Missile Crisis, involved giving Cuban exiles in the USA correct information on the shipment of nukes and missiles, guessing (correctly) that the CIA would perceive them as lies to encourage an invasion.