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TIL: A California medical school just got $200 million to invest in 'energy healing,' 'mineral infusions' and other alternative medicines

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wLlm7 TIL Hollywood Agent Mike Ovitz turned his personal martial arts instructor, Steven Seagal, into a movie star. Seagal's first film "Above the Law" actually originated from a successful screen test financed by Ovitz and led to Seagal being offered a studio contract with Warner Bros.
4kaR TIL that suicide rates aren’t highest among teens or young adults, but the elderly in their seventies/eighties
m10ZR TIL Oral-B Glide dental floss is made of Teflon and currently the subject of a class action suit alleging it "likely contains" harmful PFAs
O8Qg TIL to deter slaves from committing suicide by jumping overboard, the captain of a slave ship lowered a slave into the water with a rope then instantly pulled her out. Sharks had torn off the lower part of her body.
E1nbV TIL Rosa Parks didn't actually refuse to sit in the back of the bus. She was sitting in the back of the bus but refused to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.