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TIL after being shot, President James Garfield was subjected to Rectal feeding. He was given full meals rectally by his doctor.

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EXVx TIL There is a Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia; you can go and leave there personal objects left by former lovers, accompanied by brief descriptions.
nW4mo TIL that there were Olympic medals for painters, sculptors, writers and musicians until 1952.
dZmd TIL that the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin contains an anti-graffiti chemical - which turned out to be manufactured by the same company that made the Zyklonn B gas used in concentration camp gas chambers during World War 2.
9Yg7M TIL while reading this post on personal branding that stress causes 1 million people to avoid work every day. They have linked to the article by American Institute of Stress. Both are must read articles.
mB8M TIL That Archduke Franz Ferdinand owned an early version of a bulletproof vest made from silk. Despite modern tests indicating that a bullet of the era would have been stopped by it, and Ferdinand knowing that there was a threat to his well-being, he did not wear the vest on the fateful day.