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TIL we used Malaria to treat Syphilis
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TIL: The US govt still provides up to 300 pre-rolled marijuana joints to the 4 surviving patients from a now defunct program started in 1976
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TIL John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon had to buy back his father’s letters written to him and other of John’s belongings in an auction that Yoko Ono did after John’s death. Julian basically used his dad’s money to buy his dad’s belongings.
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TIL that an 18-year-old girl called Rae Heim ran across America almost entirely barefoot. She only wore shoes on some hard terrain. She ran 3,437.5 miles in 8 months and raised more than $10,000 for charity. She started running barefoot at 16 after breaking a big toe, and kept it up after it healed.
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TIL about Operation Mincemeat during WW2 where the British dressed up a dead body as a royal marine and placed on his person misleading evidence that the allies would invade Greece, not Sicily. The body was found by the Germans, who rerouted their resources, and the allies attacked and won Sicily
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TIL Female Kangaroos Have Three Vaginas. Marsupials, including the most popular one, the kangaroo, are equipped with a total of three vaginas. Three vaginas, two uteri, all there to serve their own joey-bearing purpose.