TIL a local folk remedy in Boho, Ireland was to place soil from the local church under a pillow while you slept to cure infections. In 2018 a microbiologist found the churchyard's soil contains a previously unknown strain of streptomyces which can be used to create antibiotics

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Submitted May 21, 2020 at 04:52PM by RevolutionaryCommie https://ift.tt/36kc2Ms