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TIL 'The Father of Modern Gynecology', James Marion Sims, perfected his surgical techniques by operating without anesthesia on enslaved black women.

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QN0pd TIL that only two people survived a fall through a cumulonimbus cloud. One of the cases suffered severe frostbite and decompression injuries and was trapped in the cloud for more than 30 minutes.
6E5GZ TIL The Pillars Of Creation don't exist anymore and were destroyed by a supernova several thousand years ago, but we won't see it happen for another thousand years.
9YpZD TIL of the Daisey Cutter, a bomb specifically designed to create helicopter landing pads in the thick jungle forests of Vietnam. The blast would level a 300+ ft circle while leaving the ground itself relatively unaffected.
Me4EA TIL In 1967, US president Lyndon Johnson secretly ordered a study that concluded he would die at age 64. He died of a heart attack in 1973 at age 64.
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