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TIL that in 1930, Vivien Thomas, an African American carpenter’s apprentice who didn’t go to Medical School, a long side Dr Alfred Blalock successfully devised an operation to save “Blue Babies”, infants born with a deadly heart defect that sends blood past their lungs

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