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TIL intelligence and physical attractiveness are as highly correlated as intelligence and education

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aw5PZ TIL Dr. John Kellogg who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium starting in 1876 believed that most ailments resulted from unclean bowels full of toxins from undigested food. To that end, he administered enemas with a device capable of running fifteen gallons of water through a patient's bowel in seconds.
4kOpN TIL Peseshet, who lived under The Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, is the earliest known female physician in history
X9KP TIL that Dick is a nickname for Richard because, in Medieval times, one of the customs for coming up with a nickname was to create a rhyme or swap a letter. So Richard became Rick, which rhymes with Dick or Hick. Only Dick has stuck around as a proper name.
N7JN TIL Ukraine wants to ban SpongeBob and other television shows because he’s “gay”
ADaXn TIL China's single child policy resulted in groups of people that had never encountered genetic siblings. The notion of "sibling" was a hard one for the children to grasp - a task made more difficult by the Chinese tendency to use the term for "brother" or "sister" when talking about cousins