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TIL Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to be accepted at a medical school in the US, because the students thought her application was a prank from a rival school and voted to let her attend.

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LQLer TIL that in 1958, author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, but was forced by the communist party to abstain form accepting the award
9YVWp TIL Astronomers have discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then again in 2014. Lead author: "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."
9Y1KM TIL a man spent 16 years typing numbers from one to one million to feature in the Guinness Book of Records
1xeD TIL Tom Green won 5 Raspberry Awards for “Freddy Got Fingered” in 2002. He showed up in a white Cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, and had to be dragged off stage because he wouldn’t stop play a harmonica.
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