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TIL the first fireman death reported during the 9/11 attacks was directly caused by someone jumping off the building and landing on him(the fireman)

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Mw6K TIL the stethoscope was conceived because the inventor felt uncomfortable placing his ear on a woman’s bare chest to listen to her heart.
16w4O TIL Nuclear Winter as the result of worldwide nuclear war has largely been discredited by current science. It was mainly a political position to prop nuclear disarmament, based on faulty modelling and "worst-case analysis run amok".
pYZYG TIL Sorcery is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia
4k8bX TIL of Dr. Atlas Fredonyer, a Swiss Doctor who was convicted of incest and pardoned by California Governor Leland Stanford and died after surgery to remove a 16-ounce bottle lost inside his rectum after an attempt to alleviate a severe case of diarrhea. Fredonyer Pass, California is named after him.
Vd0k TIL Jose Mujica, famous President of Uruguay, was kept imprisoned by a dictator at the bottom of a well for 2 years.