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TIL Victoria Gillick ran a campaign in the UK to ban contraceptives to under 16s. Her loss in court created the Gillick competence named after her, which gave under 16s more medical rights to consent to medical treatment if they understood the doctors recommendations

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YDVA TIL that in 16th century England, beggars, thieves and other criminals developed their own language known as “thieves’ cant” in order to keep law enforcement from learning about their plans or habits
OKOe TIL Domestication is different from taming. You can tame many wild animals so they won’t try to kill you, but domestication requires a change at the genetic level.
5VdR9 TIL of Kenneth Robinson, who as Minister of Health in the UK would take a series of measures against Scientology on the grounds of it being harmful, Robinson would also later successfully sue the Church, winning substantial damages and an apology.
Xp7k TIL that Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition
ZJlp TIL that 2003 was likely “the first time an automatic weapon had been fired in a crime in Britain.”