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TIL of malariotherapy. The treatment consisted of injecting patients who had developed psychosis as a result of late-stage syphilis with blood from soldiers with malaria. It actually worked and won the Nobel Prize in 1927.

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Ny1P TIL that a group of artists built a secret 750 square foot studio apartment in a parking lot of a Providence, RI mall which wasn’t discovered until 4 years later.
ke8W TIL the most expensive porno to date is Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, which cost $8,000,000 and ran 138 minutes.
MAVK TIL that Texas banned prisoners’ choice of last meal after Lawrence Russell Brewer requested 2 chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, 1 lbs of BBQ, 3 fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream & a slab of peanut butter fudge w/ crushed peanuts and ATE NONE of it
6J58 TIL That Princess Diana once invited Cindy Crawford to dinner at Buckingham Palace because Prince William had a crush on her
R5n69 TIL: about explosion welding. First observed during WW1 when shrapnel wasn't just stuck but welded. Now done in controlled sheets for comercial material.