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TIL we used Malaria to treat Syphilis
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TIL paleontologists have found 55-million-year old fossil remains of parrots in Scandinavia
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TIL that the exact meaning of the letter āpā in the pH scale is unknown because the inventor never bothered to explain what it stood for.
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TIL of Internet Hunting where a remote rifle is setup with a webcam so one can hunt animals over the internet. The practice was effectively banned in the US by 2008.
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TIL that the first national speed limit law of 55mph passed in 1974 in the US was not because of safety concerns, but because fast-traveling vehicles would have exacerbated the oil shortage at the time
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TIL that, according to the American Psychiatric Association, caffeine withdrawal is officially a mental disorder.