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TIL that a British military hospital during WW1 was staffed entirely by women. Endell Street Military Hospital in London had only female doctors, nurses, orderlies, and clerks, all of whom supported the movement to give women the vote.

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oBZaY TIL of Marjorie McCall who "lived once and was buried twice". When she died the first time of illness, grave robbers tried to steal her ring by cutting off her finger, waking her from her coma. She left her grave to live on until she died (again) some years later
Y7gyB TIL an on-board fire that caused the crash of an Imperial Airways flight in 1933 is suspected to be the first instance of airliner sabotage.
v1VMr TIL before the word "blooper" was coined, an out-take was called a "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake)
GnKj TIL Sean Connery placed third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest
vwQ7 TIL the tallest unoccupied building in the world is a 3,000 room hotel in North Korea. Construction on the 1,082-foot Ryugyong Hotel began in 1987 and was halted in 1992. After a number of attempts to resurrect the project, the hotel still hasn’t opened, 28 years after construction began.