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TIL the first detailed medical description of Parkinson's Disease is over 200 years old, yet we still don't know what causes it, how to detect it before symptoms show, and there is still no cure.

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5YoJ8 TIL yogurt was invented in 5000 BC and the combination of yogurt and honey was called "the food of the gods".
bmPj TIL that when a suicide bomber tried to enter an Israeli supermarket, the security guard stopped her and said, “You will not enter the market. You and I will blow up here.”
4XQPb TIL: Spirit Rover got a significant extension to its mission on Mars when it's solar panels were scrubbed of dust by a passing dust devil in 2005.
YRMZ TIL the little boy who played Danny in The Shining, was so guarded by Stanley Kubrick during the filming process that he did not know it was a horror film until many years later. He has since abandoned acting and gone on to become a science teacher.
JY0k4 TIL the 1877 Wormley Agreement - which ended the Reconstruction Era in America and ushered in Segregation laws - took place at the renowned Wormley's Hotel in Washington DC. The hotel itself was owned by the Black millionaire James T. Wormley.