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TIL that Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was so goth that she lost her virginity on her mom's grave

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EZNx TIL for the “horse of a different color” effect on The Wizard of Oz, horses were tinted with lemon, cherry and grape Jello powder, which the horses would persistently try to lick off.
AO0l TIL that quarantine comes from the Italian word quaranta, meaning 40 because ships coming in had to spend 40 days off shore to prevent latent plague victims from coming in
XEDPP TIL that Stalin hated soldiers who surrendered and considered them traitors. This included his own son, Yakov. When informed that the Nazi's had captured Yakov and sought a possible prisoner exchange with the USSR Stalin replied "I have no son called Yakov".
jNpmj Today I learned that Germany actually surrendered twice at the end of the WW2. One being 8th and the other 9th of May. This was due to the fact that Stalin inserted terms to make the Soviet contribution to the victory bigger.
JkZv TIL a clinical trial in 2016 held at Stanford University School of Medicine found that injecting modified human stem cells directly into the brains of chronic stroke patients can re-enable patients to walk.