When I was about 9 my previously atheist parents decided to try going to church, and dragged me and my brother along.

I have a clear memory of sitting in a pew and listening to the minister talking about Jesus walking in water, and it slowly dawning on me that all the adults in the room believed this and I was in a room full of crazy people. Really unnerved me.

TIL that Nobel laureate Tu Youyou discovered the malaria drug artemisinin after reading a 1,600 year Chinese medical text and realizing the herb had to be extracted cold, not boiled, paving a treatment estimated to have saved tens of millions of lives. She then tested it on herself to prove it.