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TIL In the early 70’s a treatment model for schizophrenia that used no drugs or psychiatrists rehabilitated the majority of the patients that attended it.

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5VXVD TIL - Methuselah is a 4,854-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. It is recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world.
VDAB TIL a brain damaged rat was given a robotic cerebellum. The cyborg rodent then achieved normal body functions.
pYmeO TIL That in 1908, two unknown American business men traveled to Spain to meet with renowned architect Antoni Gaudi in hopes of commissioning him to build a hotel in Lower Manhattan.
PBmV TIL Martha Stewart was in a relationship with Anthony Hopkins and broke up with him after watching Silence of the Lambs, saying she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter
R5wL1 TIL That When King Kalakaua was in the Mainland, in Kansas he got so drunk he passed out. The legislators had James Burns act as King Kalakaua. He noted that he was "never taken for a man of Color before" at the bottom of the newspaper