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TIL Sepsis patients often have undetectable levels of vitamin C [scurvy], compared to healthy patients. Animals produce increased levels when they are stressed, but humans are unable to make vitamin C. Doctors are using intravenous vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine to treat sepsis.

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Zkvp TIL Elijah Wood crossed South Africa’s Victoria Falls on ropes, and was the first person to do so
e0b7b TIL Cuttlefish have three hearts; one for oxygenating the body, and two to supply blood to their gills. Their blood is also blue-green.
VBMr8 TIL: Hugo Bettauer, a prominent Author who vehemently opposed anti-Semitism, was murdered by a Nazi who accused him of, corrupting the youth and communism.
nWred TIL that there is an open-source Python package called "Dulwich", and why it's named after an area in London: It's a pure Python version of Git, and the name comes from a Monty Python sketch, where the characters Mr. and Mrs. Git live and occasionally attend to cocktail parties.
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