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TIL - Shirley Temple was among the highest profile advocates about breast cancer awareness. In 1972 it was common for doctors not to tell women their diagnosis and to initiate mastectomy without their knowledge or consent because they were thought unable to deal with the news of their affliction.

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pYxbN TIL about the transition state theory; developed in 1935, it has been used to calculate the standard enthalpy of activation, the standard entropy of activation, and the standard Gibbs energy of activation for all chemical reactions where the rate constant was experimentally determined.
e0vXn TIL about Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, who agreed to annul her marriage to Guy de Lusignan to appease the High Court, on the condition that she have free rein to choose her next husband after her coronation. Upon being crowned queen, Sibylla immediately announced that she chose Guy as her husband.
NXYMe TIL There was once a king who had never been attracted to women, one day, he saw a beautiful beggar and fell in love with her. He brought her to his palace and made her sit on his thrown and then kneeled before her and asked her to be his queen.
ADw8n TIL: The conspiracy theory surrounding the Titanic sinking is totally unfounded.
BgJmx TIL that Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, for hiding Jews during WW2, were recognized as Righteous. They were also recognized as martyrs by the Catholic Church, along with their entire family, including Wiktoria's unborn child at the time of her death, making him the first fetus to be beatified in 2023.