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TIL: The oldest known medical text is a book about vaginas.

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p8BW4 Appendix is a haven for intestinal bacteria that help us fight off infections that lead to diarrhea, fever, nausea and abdominal pain. In fact, individuals without an appendix were found be four times as likely to get said infection.
NX6JJ TIL of Victoria Cilliers - a woman who survived a 4,000 foot fall after she went skydiving and both her parachutes failed. It was later revealed that her husband was responsible for tampering with them and had tried to kill her. Victoria would go on to give key testimony at her husband’s trial.
yQWoa TIL that Dave Thomas, founder and chief executive officer of fast-food restaurant Wendy's, was born to a young unmarried woman he never knew. Thomas also dropped out of high school to work full-time and did not graduate until 1993, when he obtained a GED.
WJ9d TIL that Ancient Egyptians believed the universe was formed by the god Atum masturbating, and that the flow of the Nile was controlled by the frequency of which Atum masturbated.
Rjm6 TIL In 2011, a Supreme Court case decided that prisoners in a for-profit prison couldn’t sue anybody if their right from cruel and unusual punishment was violated, as it’s a corporation doing the cruel and unusual punishing, not the government.