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TIL Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp was an English lay bonesetter in the early 1700s, known for performing impressive bone-setting acts in Epsom and London. She learned the practice from her father and gained fame as a woman working in a male-dominated profession.

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5Ymb9 TIL of Vermin Supreme. A man who has unsuccessfully ran for president four times. He wears a giant boot on his head and campaigns every term on the promise to make Americans brush their teeth and that he will give every citizen a pony if he is elected.
M6VB TIL that the FCC considers 4mbps to be fast enough for hd online streaming
KMDQ TIL if you bought $350 million worth of Powerball tickets (at $2 a ticket), it’s theoretically possible to guarantee winning as there are approximately ‘only’ 175 million possible number combinations.
9YWrX TIL while making 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to a staffer asking if IBM were concerned that HAL was a psychotic computer. IBM wrote back explaining they were fine with it so long as IBM were not associated with any equipment failure.
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