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TIL about Drayton Daugherty, a doctor who cured a dying man by pretending to undo a voodoo hex in a last ditch effort after modern medicine didn't work. The man believed he was cured and lived for ten more years.

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WkAyA TIL in the Ainu community (Japan's indigenous people), when a man proposed to a woman, he visited her house, ate half a full bowl of rice handed to him by her, and returned the rest. If the woman ate the rest, she accepted his proposal. If she did not and put it beside her, she rejected his proposal
VP80 TIL of a 3000 year old ball game in mexico where the losers were sacrificed to the gods; it is now being revived.
0wr5p TIL a F-105D fighter jet nicknamed Pussy Galore "boosted moral" of refueling tanker planes by featuring a naked woman whose genitals marked the refuel "docking" port.
wLrmW TIL that although it's called the "San Francisco Bay Area", the city of San Francisco isn't even the biggest city in that area. San Jose, its neighbor to the South, is more populous and nearly 4 TIMES larger in area.
oRnY8 TIL the renowned architect Buckminster Fuller experienced an epiphany around age 32 where he felt himself suspended several feet above the ground in a white sphere of light. A voice said things like, "You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You belong to the universe."