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TIL that “poecilonym” is a synonym for “synonym”.
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TIL A doctor saved the life of a premature baby (Chris Trokey). After 30 years Chris, who was a paramedic, was the first responder to save a person from a burning vehicle, visited the hospital and realized that the man he had helped was the man who had given him the gift of life 30 years earlier.
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TIL Antarctica has a emergency phone number: 911. It Calls the nearest island/country that has a Police / Emergency system.
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TIL a female physician had an affair with a male physician. No intercourse took place, only oral sex. She secretly took the sperm from her cheeks to impregnate herself. She later sued for child support and won.
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TIL Proximity fuses were invented jointly by UK & US in WW II. A secret guarded to a similar level as the atom bomb project, and for years not fired on Germans for fear of them figuring it out. It allowed UK anti-V1 artillery to go from 17% to 74% effective. Julius Rosenberg was able to steal one.
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TIL that Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas", was not published under Plath's name until 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, eight years after her death.