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TIL Tu Youyou won Nobel Prize in Medicine by discovering a cure for Malaria in ancient Chinese Daoist Medical texts

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jNBeX TIL that Triboulet, jester of Francis I, saved his life thanks to his vivaciousness. After making fun of a king's mistress, he was sentenced to death and had to choose the way he would die. Sharp minded, he asked to die of old age, leaving the King voiceless his sentence was commuted to banishment.
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