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TIL the first surgery to establish surgery as a respectable branch of medicine was performed on King Louis XIV’s anal fistula

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b6lX4 TIL CTE can only be diagnosed after death through brain tissue analysis. Doctors with a specialty in brain diseases slice brain tissue and use special chemicals to make the abnormal tau protein visible. (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy)
VM04Z TIL The FBI attempted to blackmail Martin Luther King into suicide, instructing him to acquiesce and commit suicide prior to accepting his Nobel Peace Award. "There is only one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation"
Qo5k TIL that Southern sweet tea was originally used to show wealth, as tea, ice, and sugar were all very expensive at the time.
R7aew TIL Oreo filling contains no dairy, so the FDA didn't allow it to be called 'cream'. Therefore, it was named 'creme' instead.
j7vN TIL that in October of 2014, Amanda Bynes tweeted that her father sexually abused her as a child. She later claimed that this was not the case, and a microchip implanted in her brain forced her to say it.