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TIL Lenora Cazalet, daughter of Jeeves author PG Wodehouse, died after minor gynecological surgery in 1944 London because a German V1 rocket fell near the hospital and overwhelmed them with casualties so no one responded to Lenora's overnight call button pleas to stem her post-op bleeding.

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4PpJ TIL that in 2000 Nestlé chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe stated that “access to water should not be a public right.” While that statement was recanted, Nestlé continues to take control of aquifers and bottle their water for profit.
N7r4E TIL that the scientists who first discovered the platypus thought it was fake. Although indigenous Aboriginal people already knew of the creature, European scientists assumed an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous mammal had to be an elaborate hoax.
wLBVM TIL about pack horse librarians that serviced the Appalachian communities (e.g., rural Kentucky) in the mid 1930s to early 1940s who were mostly women who rode on horses or mules to deliver library books to remote communities during the Great Depression.
GYxrG TIL the Bull Arab originates from Australia and is commonly called the Australian Pig Dog since they were originally developed to hunt and hold pigs pinned to the ground by the ear. Currently, its breed status is not recognized as a breed by any major kennel club.
16ZNX TIL that the Invisible rail (Habroptila wallacii) is native to to the island of Halmahera, Indonesia. It is not actually invisble, just difficult to spot.