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xV9pg TIL about Dr. Carlo Urbani who first identified the SARS coronavirus, is credited with triggering the rapid response that helped bring the outbreak to an end, and lost his own life to the virus just one month later.
164R7 TIL about the Raggedy Ann musical that failed on Broadway, closing after only five performances.
p81PG TIL about Dorothy Louis Gage, L Frank Baum's niece, who died at the age of 5 months. Baum's wife was so distraught over Dorothy's death that she started requiring medical treatment. In order to cheer his wife up, Baum decided to name the protagonist of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in his niece's honor
J1lQV TIL that the first Medal of Honor awarded by the U.S. Army was given to a group of Union soldiers who hijacked a Confederate train during the "Great Locomotive Chase" in 1862, a daring sabotage mission that became a pivotal moment in the Civil War.
E1PKx TIL that when EEG was used to measure brain activity of a woman with multiple personality disorder there was no brain activity linked to sight whenever one of her blind 'alters' was in control (although her eyes were open), but that normal activity returned to the area when a sighted alter took over