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TIL Ancient Egypt may have had the first health-care plan in the world

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Ww9o TIL: A new paper published in nature show that when doing certain experiments in mice, the gender of the researcher can greatly vary the results of experiment observed in mice. Mice are scared ‘shitless’ when men are around.
oBLpo TIL Anna Nicole Smith never actually got money when her 90-year-old husband died. His will left his $1.6 billion estate to his son and nothing to her.
DbKj TIL a word-unit palindrome is a type of palindrome in which the unit of reversal is the word instead of the letter – for example: “Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?”.
rNn8y TIL: In Oct 2003 and Jan 2004, two separate men disappeared in Naples, Florida after being detained by the same deputy, who claims to have dropped both men at two different Circle K convenience stores after he “changed his mind about arresting them” — both men were never found.
X7lQ TIL A man named Mike Merrill decided to sell shares in himself at $1 a share allowing his stockholders decide what he should do with his life