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TIL Frances Clayton (nee’ Clalin) disguised herself as a man to fight Union side in the Civil War in April 1862. She went by the name Jack Williams. Her husband died fighting next to her in December 1862

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VBQmG TIL when Jack Benny died in 1974, his will arranged for a single long-stemmed red rose to be delivered to his widow, Mary Livingstone, every day for the rest of her life. She lived eight and a half more years, passing away in 1983.
7806M TIL that nattokinase, an enzyme contained in nattō, exhibits strong fibrinolytic activity and inactivates plasminogen activator inhibitor 1—a risk factor for thrombosis and atherosclerosis—when it comes into contact with human blood or blood clots.
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