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TIL two women discovered a 1000-year-old Viking/Saxon recipe that kills MRSA and Anti-Biotic resistant Super Infections.

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yZVa TIL that former prime minister of New Zealand, David Lange, once wrote in an opinion piece for a NZ military periodical: “Our military forces are an arm of government, just like the Department of Social Welfare, although probably less able to inflict widespread harm.”
4XAMb TIL of the Rosenhan Experiment, in which a psychologist David Rosenhan and seven other pseudo-patients faked their mental illnesses and gained admission into various psychiatric hospitals, as a criticism of the methods of psychiatric diagnosis.
MeEA8 TIL, that the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer. A 21 year old actress who was shot at her front door by an obsessed fan and later died enacted the Nation’s first anti-stalking Law’s in 1990. In 1994, the ‘Driver’s Privacy Protection Act’ made it illegal to release people’s private addresses.
gMNY4 TIL Women's Rights aren't Constitutionally protected in America. The amendment was proposed almost 100 years ago and took about 50 years to be passed by Congress. It has been almost 50 since then and the amendment still hasn't been ratified by enough states to pass.
ndyd TIL Before Becoming President, Franklin Roosevelt Was Rebuked By Congress For Overseeing the Creation of a Gay Teenage Prostitution Ring in the Navy. It didn’t hurt his Presidential Run Because Press Thought it Was Too Indecent to Report.