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TIL the British Government forcibly deported a whole population out of an island to make way for a US military base

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Kl7E TIL That Manteo Mitchell broke his fibula while running the 400m relay in the Olympics, but kept on running
X0Mjk TIL Woodpeckers have two toes facing forward and two toes facing backward to help them cling to trees. They’re called zygodactile feet.
gMnZb TIL of Eva Saxl, a diabetic woman who synthesised her own insulin in a basement during WWII, saving not only her own life but the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto who would have died when legal insulin became unavailable
6E9EQ TIL the FDA approved the first gene therapy drug for use in the US - the drug modifies patient T-cells to hunt down and destroy cancer cells and has produced very high response and remission rates in clinical trials.
vP4yL TIL that Bayer knowing sold HIV tainted blood products to 3rd world hemophiliacs because they decided the financial investment of the product was considered too high to destroy.