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TIL, according to scientists, this is the most relaxing tune ever recorded. In test subjects, it reduced anxiety by 65% and supposedly induces a trance-like state.

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nWBOo TIL that Australian scientists accidentally developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics while working on solar cells.
QNLbX TIL about how scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared.
va64 TIL that the nonprofit Goodwill pays its disabled workers pennies an hour while the CEO makes up to a quarter of a million dollars a year, all because of a 75 year old federal loophole.
jnMX TIL a 10 year old boy was captured and sold into slavery by the King of Algiers in the 16th Century, and he rose to become one of the richest, most influential, and well-liked Barbary pirates, and his name was Ali Bitchin.
epe6J TIL that the Islamic Republic of Iran allows gender transition surgery and subsidizes it. This was introduced by the Islamic revolutionary Khomeini after he came to power. Today, many Europeans travel to Iran for gender confirmation and reassignment surgery.