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TIL that the “@“ sign, or asperand, has been around since the mid-1500s and is not a product of the Internet age, as some might think, let alone the 20th century.

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E1BNd TIL that Dr. James Barry, a celebrated surgeon, was born Margaret Bulkley and adopted a male persona to become the UK’s first female doctor, carrying out the first successful caesarean delivery. She fooled the Army, high society & the whole British Empire. This secret was only revealed after death.
d1k9 TIL Skydiving to raise money for NHS related charities cost the NHS £13.75 for every £1 raised.
DQ4j TIL There was a German Citizen who was kidnapped by the US Govt., tortured in Afghanistan for a few months and released into a desolate road in Albania when he was found innocent. All because his name sounded similar to a suspected terrorist.
W7V94 TIL we are closer to ‘idicracy’ thank we think, meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind
N9G6 TIL that after WWII, the Soviet Union presented a wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Ambassador Averell Harriman who hung it in his office. Seven years later, a routine inspection revealed the gift contained a bugging device the Soviets had used to spy on the ambassador.