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TIL Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz tried to rat f*ck his whistleblower grandson and stuck him with a four to five hundred thousand legal bill in an attempt to protect his own financial interest in disgraced blood testing company Theranos.

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QJE0L TIL the longest surgery to date was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from a 600-lb woman. Simply hacking it out would have killed her, so the surgeon gradually drained fluid from the cyst over the course of four days, shrinking it to 100 lb. and allowing for a successful removal.
VGg8 TIL Mother Teresa was criticized by the medical press for her view on ‘suffering’, which she enacted at her 'Home for the Dying’ in Calcutta, with her position being “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot… the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”
mwpO TIL Israel has a long history of passing along secret US Military technology to China.
epKyg TIL that, in the 1930's, the only commercial airport serving New York City was in New Jersey. To protest this, NYC Mayor LaGuardia once refused to deplane in NJ because his ticket said "New York City," so they flew him to NYC.
9wVxM TIL in 2016, Melissa Smith attempted to kill herself by shooting herself in the head. She survived, but not without a shattered skull and a wild story to tell.