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TIL Curling is believed to be one of the world’s oldest team sports.

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MLvA TIL: Two bystanders were shot in Detroit when two men got into an argument over who made better Kool-Aid
v1GMR TIL about the Still Face Experiment, where infants showed they can experience great distress when they are not smiled at and responded to.
P5Ae TIL in 1891, William Coley showed that spontaneous remission of cancer could be induced using toxins which model a bacterial infection. Despite treating over 1000 individuals and curing some patients with end-stage cancer, the last recorded use of this therapy was in China in the 1980s.
wDGY TIL that researchers have patented a strain of seaweed that tastes like bacon when cooked and contains twice the nutritional value of kale.
9wBZX TIL that up until the 1970s, American insurance companies put vending machines at airport ticket counters which sold plane crash life insurance policies. This practice ended when courts started strictly enforcing the policies against the insurers.