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TIL that in the late 1800’s, Doctors would infect sick patients with a secondary disease, in order to cure them of the primary one eg. a patient with syphilis would be injected with malaria, to give them a fever and thus, cure them (Most prominently by Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg)

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D1jPe TIL that after the Panic of 1837, Richard Mentor Johnson, the incumbent Vice President, returned to his home state in Kentucky and opened a tavern and spa on his farm to offset his continued financial struggles.
epNZb TIL Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, an American physician and Nobel Prize winner, was charged of child molestation, including that of the children brought home from research trips to live with him.
7KgZ TIL In 1939, Georg Elser, a 36-year-old carpenter from a small town in southern Germany, spent 30 nights hollowing out a pillar in a German beer hall in order to plant a bomb. Acting in secret and without the help of anyone else, he had a meticulous plan to kill Adolph Hitler. He almost succeeded.
P18mE TIL of Solomon Islander Jacob C. Vouza. During WW2, he was captured by the Japanese during the Guadalcanal Campaign, tied to a tree, bayoneted, and left for dead. He then chewed through the ropes with his teeth and made his way to American lines warning them about an impending attack. He survived.
egnD TIL In 1962, a group of scientists wanted to study the effects of LSD on elephants. They injected an elephant with 3,000 times the normal dose given to humans because they assumed elephants would be much less sensitive to LSD than humans. The elephant died in 100 minutes.