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TIL LSD (Acid) was legal for decades, was given to undergraduate psychiatry students as part of their education, and it has the highest success rate in recorded history for treating alcoholism.

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1aJr7 TIL in the 1960s, two doctors made a taxidermy female turkey to see what attracted a male. They discovered almost nothing stopped the male’s advances, even when the female’s wings, feet, and legs were removed. The male even made attempts to a stick with female’s head on it.
5YolD TIL that the Phineas and Ferb theme song was done by the band Bowling for Soup.
K4Y4 TIL Erwin Rommel, the “desert fox”, became an anti-Nazi upon his return from Africa. Rather than execute him, the Gestapo gave him the option of suicide by poison and a hero’s funeral. He was portrayed as a faithful Nazi at his funeral. The truth did not come to light until Nuremberg.
dD40Z TIL Dr Stewart Adams OBE, who led the team at Boots the Chemists which discovered Ibuprofen, tested the drug on his own hangover.
JYgol TIL Brown Recluse bites are often misdiagnosed and are commonly staph infections from the puncture.