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TIL that the first person to use a pacemaker and the doctor who implanted it were born in the same year, with the patient outliving the doctor.

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neeOr In part, we’re really just going back to our caveman roots.
ep7BJ TIL about Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick, the first woman to parachute from an airplane and the first person to manually deploy a parachute after a malfunction.
xVb1w TIL human beings invented bread before they invented farming
aApM TIL the female equivalent of ‘morning wood’ is 'morning dew’.
MeoZb TIL Although widely taught in schools, Tongue Map or Taste Map has been scientifically disproven by later research; all taste sensations come from all regions of the tongue, although different parts are more sensitive to certain tastes.