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TIL That an american doctor that survived Ebola, contracted the virus in his eye, turning it green, and regained his eyesight by taking a non-FDC approved experimental secret drug.

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1aWQV TIL the Portuguese man o' war isn't a singular organism; instead, it's made up of specialized individual animals of the same species
4XZER TIL: Tess than 75 years after the discovery of gold in 1848, almost every grizzly bear in California had been tracked down and killed. ... Two years later in 1924, what was thought to be a grizzly was spotted in Sequoia National Park for the last time and thereafter, grizzlies were never seen again
R5ola TIL that the term "use case" originated in software engineering and was popularized by Ivar Jacobson, a Swedish computer scientist, in the 1980s. The first known published use of the term "use case" was in Jacobson's 1992 book "Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach.”
wLXRY TIL About the rarest blood on Earth. In 49 years, Rhnull has only been known in 43 or so people around the world.
VGg8 TIL Mother Teresa was criticized by the medical press for her view on ‘suffering’, which she enacted at her 'Home for the Dying’ in Calcutta, with her position being “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot… the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”