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nW99Y TIL there is an area of Yellowstone National Park called the “Zone of Death”, where a legal loophole could theoretically allow someone to get away with murder if committed there.
waK1 TIL: That term bullshit is not actually derived from A Bull’s shit as commonly understood. But actually old French word bole meaning fraud, deceit.
GXR7 TIL that when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Niels Bohr had his colleagues’ Nobel medals dissolved in acid. They were stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was precipitated and the medals re-struck by the Nobel Foundation.
Yl0r TIL before people knew the full extent of x-rays, women would get face x-rays in order to kill bacteria which would make skin look healthy and beautiful. After a while people who did this started developing tumors on their faces and some even died. Doctors also used this method for hair removal.
wLOrM TIL There’s a doctor who offers Direct Primary Care. A service that works as a monthly membership. Depending on age, you can pay anywhere from $10 to $89 a month. They do not bill insurance and gives all medication and lab work done at cost. Conventional system can be up to 80x the cost.