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TIL In 1854, during the Crimean war, the British hospital in Constantinople was extremely unhygienic. Patients lay in their own excrement, and rodents and bugs scurried past them. More soldiers died of disease than injury. Florence Nightingale fixed this by getting patients to clean the hospital.

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kOXa7 TIL that the biggest earthquake ever recorded happened in May 22, 1960 in Valdivia, Chile, also known as the Great Chilean earthquake had recorded in a magnitude of 9.5
R7bv1 In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corps began research flights in a modified Lockheed Electra; the XC-35 was the first airplane built with a pressurized cabin.
JYRxv TIL I learned of Derek Paraviccini, an autistic musical savant. Although born blind and barely able to care for himself, he plays piano with superhuman clarity and accuracy.
d8m7Z TIL When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Buzz performed communion, drinking wine from a church chalice. NASA chose not to broadcast it because of the religious nature of the event.
x6vBo TIL that healthy guinea pigs excrete at least 50 faecal pellets a day.