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TIL It’s likely that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt never had polio. Studies have suggested that Guillain–Barré syndrome caused his paralysis, and it was misdiagnosed as polio.

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jNBNj TIL that trees release so called monoterpenes to start the condensation of new clouds to help block the sun and cool themselves if it's too hot.
69V6X TIL forced adoption in Australia was the practice of taking babies from unmarried mothers, against their will, & placing them for adoption. It occurred in the late 20th century, with around 250,000 Australian children estimated to have been removed from their families and handed to infertile couples
VMGGZ TIL about Guerrilla Grafting. It's the illegal process of turning city maintained sterile fruit trees into fruiting trees by splicing compatible branches onto the sterile trees with branches from fruiting trees.
1AKO TIL UC Berkeley is developing a free timeline of the history of everything– Starting from the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago to the present.
kJ8ed TIL intranasal capsaicin has been shown to be an effective remedy for migraines. Side effects include temporary burning and tear production.