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TIL Rome established medical licenses for highly trained physicians in the year 202 and they prevented medical students from going to brothels.

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7GrO TIL that in the 1950s a Texas white man went through extensive physical changes to become a black man and travel for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences, he was forced to move to Mexico for several years.
6lvl TIL that 23% of the crew aboard Christopher Columbus’ ship “Santa Maria” was named “Juan”.
nJ1b TIL that The Great Lakes are 21% of the worlds fresh water supply and that Ontario Power Generation is planning to bury radioactive nuclear waste one mile away.
kJL94 TIL Henry V, while still prince, was hit by an arrow near his left nostril during the Battle of Shrewsbury. The arrow shaft broke leaving the arrow point buried six inches deep in his head. Court surgeon John Bradmore devised a special tool to extract the arrow point and saved the prince's life.
jNmkR TIL about #OpJustina which was an attack on Boston Children’s Hospital to demand the release of Justina Pelletier— a little girl being held against her will by the state of Massachusetts. She was taken from her parents after the hospital thought her mitochondrial illness was psychological.