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TIL about Malone Mukwende. He is actively creating a free medical handbook on skin conditions for POC to bridge the gap of exclusively caucasian examples of various skin afflictions in his medical textbooks.

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Lay9 TIL In 1869, a strange fashion trend was afoot among the hippest London ladies. With the assistance of canes and mismatched shoes or specialty pairs with different heel heights, they affected what was called the Alexandra Limp.
O1lL TIL Massachusetts Republicans are more liberal than Arkansas Democrats
Bngd TIL of a real-life Rambo, a man who evaded thermal-imaging helicopters, armored vehicles, and nearly 1,000 police officers for 48 days after murdering a state trooper with a sniper rifle in northern Pennsylvania. The man, Eric Frein, learned his skills as an Eagle scout and war reenactor.
WepB TIL in Kennesaw, GA, there is a city ordinance which requires all residents to own both a gun and ammunition.
bQ67 TIL “The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South America in 1800 encountered a very old parrot that was the sole speaker of a dead Indian language, the original tribe having gone extinct.”