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TIL That the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes, Richard Lancelyn Green, was found dead in his flat in 2004 in very mysterious circumstances. Green at the time of death was attempting to stop a Christies auction of Holmes artefacts from taking place and ending up in collectors hands.

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wL0OY TIL Australian medical pioneers, doctor Mark Lidwill and physicist Edgar Booth, developed the first artificial pacemaker in the 1920s. Lidwill even used the invention in 1928 to revive a stillborn baby, who went on to make a full recovery.
ZY9D TIL that until 1974, banks could (and usually would) refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless she was married and her husband co-signed for the card. A divorced woman was considered too much of a risk because she “couldn’t keep a marriage under control.”
1g0V TIL in the 19th century the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women.
0wwOR TIL that in 1995 authorities of the People's Republic of China abducted the 6 year old Panchen Lama of Tibet, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. He has not been seen or heard from since.