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TIL William Thornton, a phycisian and a close friend of George Washington failed to arrive early enough to treat him in 1799. Instead he proposed a plan to reanimate his frozen corpse using blankets, a transfusion with sheep's blood and a tracheostomy to pump his lungs with air. It was rejected

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