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TIL Jonas Salk, Who Invented the Polio Vaccine, Could Have Been the Richest Person in the World If He Had Patented It, but He Chose to Give It Away for Free

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D1ooV TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
Nal6 TIL of Bertha Benz, wife of the inventor of the first modern automobile, who made the first ever long-distance drive to market the invention. Along the way, she used her garter to repair the ignition and invented the first pair of brake pads. The 66mi trip took her the entire day.
vnN7 TIL of author Mary Roberts Rinehart, who created a costumed super-criminal called “the Bat”, cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for Batman.
wLnL1 TIL Narcissistic personality disorder and bipolar disorders share many traits in common, such as: setting high, unattainable, goals; and being very impulsive. This makes diagnosis difficult, since what looks like one of the disorders in a person might actually be the other.
ay8o TIL that German internet users have a 23-year-old meme where they pretend the town of Bielefeld (330,000) does not exist