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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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QNWBp TIL in 1957, dentist Charles Kremer in New York voiced his suspicion that a high-ranking church official, Archbishop Valerian Trifa, was actually the Nazi war criminal Viorel Trifa. 20 years later, investigators found Trifa's fingerprint on a postcard to Heinrich Himmler in a German archive.
ADwXo TIL that Snape’s first words to Harry were actually a Victorian Flower Language secret message.
Y7QOZ TIL that in addition to Kamikaze aircraft, Japan during WWII had manned suicide torpedoes called Kaiten. Once sealed in, the pilots could not unlock the hatches and the device would self destruct if the mission failed.
PYQlL TIL about Agent 355. This was the code name of a female spy during the American Revolution she was very capable with everything from deception to weapons of that time. She was one of the first spies for the United States, but her real identity is unknown
4kM5N TIL: The CIA unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro over 634 times, including using an exploding cigar