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TIL Barry J. Marshall thought the H. Pylori bacteria caused stomach ulcers, and tested it on himself, then treated himself after that, curing himself and winning a Nobel Prize.

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QNR16 TIL that The Lord of the Rings trilogy won 475 out of 800 film awards, making it the most awarded film series in cinema history.
6mpX TIL Eminem was interviewed on 60 Minutes and showed Anderson Cooper how to rhyme the word “orange” by making it two syllables: “I put my orange four-inch door-hinge in storage and ate porridge with George.”
pY1p TIL Norway has very strict rules on advertising cars as “green” - saying “cars can do nothing good for the environment except less damage than others”
9lvG TIL “Step on a crack…” originally ended with “and your mother will turn black.”
yQRvV TIL the 1904 St Louis Olympics was almost entirely an American event. Due to the cost, time and difficulty of travelling to St Louis, 523 of the 630 total athletes were US Citizens.