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TIL In 1945 Roman Catholic nun Elise Rivet volunteered to go to the gas chamber in place of a mother at the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Less than two months before Germany surrendered she was killed at the age of 55.

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xVPm0 Seven out of ten prescriptions written today are for items unknown to medicine before World War II.
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