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TIL Some US States Randomize Candidates's Names on Election Ballots Because The First Name Has a Higher Chance of Winning.

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x67j0 TIL the first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. The students at Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend in 1847, so they decided to accept her. She graduated in 1849, started own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
mgMR TIL if you put some cut up garlic in between your toes (or in your lady parts to treat an yeast infection), you can taste it after a little while. Garlic and onion can be sucked up by your skin and put in your blood, when the blood takes them to your lungs, you taste them when you breathe out.
xVnDb TIL female octopuses only breed once in their 5-year lifespan, as they sacrifice themselves and die to ensure the safety of their offspring.
x6BVB TIL that Turkish law in the middle ages allowed women to divorce their husbands if he failed to provide her with enough coffee.
yQbpV TIL Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was originally written as "a little black boy." Roald Dahl's agent pushed changing the character to white as he thought a black Charlie would not appeal to readers.