Post * DQMoV — Curious Curator

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TIL about James Harrison, the "Man with the Golden Arm," who donated blood over 1,100 times and helped save 2.5 million babies. His rare antibody was used to create Anti-D, a treatment that prevents a deadly newborn disease. After receiving a lifesaving transfusion at 14, he spent six decades giving

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oEXL TIL: The last time the Houston Astro dome hosted the Super Bowl in 2003, was vaunted as the “Greatest Super Bowl of all Time” It’s also when Janet Jackson had her live “nipslip” performing w/Justin Timberlake. A guy frustrated trying to find clip the next day had a decent idea and created YouTube.

4b1w TIL that in 2014, a missing woman was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.

wowKP TIL D.D. Palmer, who performed the first chiropractic adjustment in 1895, credited the ghost of a long-dead doctor with introducing him to the healing practice.

7rAbb TIL that Julia Tuttle was the only woman to found a major American city, having owned and developed the land that would eventually become Miami.

mx0Wy TIL about David Vetter, a child who lived with a severely weakened immune system meaning that he spent the majority of his life inside a sterile bubble. In 1997 researchers from NASA create a specialized space suit for him, allowing him to walk outside his bubble for the first time.