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TIL that the founder of chiropractic says he received it from "the other world"; that the tenets of chiropractic were passed along to him by a doctor who had died 50 years previously.

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166g8 TIL Spirited Away lost its record of highest grossing animated film in Japanese history to Dragon Slayer- Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train after 19 years in 2020.
VBLB4 TIL about the atlantropa, a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea that was devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s, and promoted by him until his death in 1952. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea.
pKDe TIL a man tried to redeem 7 million Pepsi Points for a Harrier Jet and sued when Pepsico claimed the commercial in which it was featured was ‘fanciful’.
e0ymn TIL in 1952, a nuclear reactor in Canada had a partial meltdown. American and Canadian service personnel disassembled the reactor a few minutes at a time to limit radioactive exposure. Jimmy Carter was one of the Americans. His experience led him to cease development of the neutron bomb as POTUS.
B4NW TIL that a team at MIT invented a camera that can capture 1 trillion frames per second, enough to see light travel in slow motion.