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TIL a 6-yo girl victim of the infamous radioactive accident that occurred in Brazil, 1987, was left alone in an isolated hospital room and received no treatment whatsoever until her death

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nWGAY TIL the concept of putting wheels on luggage was invented in 1970, a year after we put humans on the moon.
bK7p TIL that one of the two daggers buried with King Tutankhamen was made out of meteorite.
woJl7 TIL of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, a survival of Alexander the Great's empire around modern day Pakistan that was isolated from it's Mediterranean homeland from the Parthian Persians and would survive the Roman conquest of the rest of the Greek world into our Common Era
nWplW TIL that on 9/11 a 5th airliner was presumed to be hijacked because the pilot changed the squawk code to 7500, which indicated a hijacking. Despite being a mistake, the airliner was diverted to Canada and was escorted there by US F-15s.
JPZv TIL that a 19th century surgeon once tried to amputate a patient’s leg in under 150 seconds. In his haste, he also amputated his assistant’s fingers and slashed through the coat of a spectator. Both the patient and the assistant died of gangrene, and the spectator dropped dead of fright.