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TIL The doctor who claimed that there was a link between vaccines and autism lost his medical license for fraudulent data produced from a study.

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1ald8 TIL a common practice while electing a new pope was for Cardinals to cast a throw away vote for someone who was not seen as a strong candidate To see how the others were voting, one year the majority of cardinals cast the same throw away vote and in 1335, Jaques Fournier became Pope Benedict XII
mn6O TIL that Richard Dean Anderson was made an honorary Air Force Brigadier General for his role as Jack O'Neil on Stargate SG-1.
1arjP TIL that Brazilian prisons offer to reduce the sentences of their prisoners by 4 days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on.
BrB0d TIL about "Zoombombing"
VB6wZ TIL About the rural "Fasci Siciliani", a political movement in southern Italy which preached Socialism as the true faith of Christ, they held Crosses alongside red flags and pictures of Marx at their meetings, the movement spread like an epidemic reaching 300k members in 4 years before it was banned