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TIL ancient Chinese physicians kept a small ivory "medicine doll" in their desks to help them treat female patients, who were forbidden from showing too much skin to a male other than their husband. Women seeking medical attention would point to the areas on the doll where they had discomfort.

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7r5VO TIL J Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the A-bomb, resigned as leader of Los Alamos. The program had shifted focus to thermonuclear weapons, and Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the hydrogen bomb and similar weapons on the grounds that they were more destructive than mankind could responsibly control.
ANaNx TIL Now That's Beautiful Like Earth, Saturn gets auroras at its poles. They're invisible to the unaided human eye, but the Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of them using infrared and ultraviolet imaging tech.
79A7 TIL that when ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ began, Patrick Stewart dreaded having to learn and recite technobabble dialogue. He got used to doing so, however, and “space-time continuum” became his favorite technical phrase.
R75ba TIL the inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in one.
OEnR TIL that in 1944, the Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees played a “tri-cornered game,” which consisted of all three teams competing against each other and rotating between fielding, batting, and resting.