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TIL NASA pioneered research for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)/Orthostatic Intolerance (OI) and developed therapeutic exercise programs for them for astronauts returning from space.

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Q7gp TIL Mexican General Santa Anna had an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg. Ironically, soon after the funeral, his new prosthetic leg was seized by Americans as a war trophy and is still on display at the Illinois State Military Museum.
WkN4Y TIL the oldest remains to ever be found in North America are those of a teenage girl in Mexico from 13,000 years ago.
Bg0Wr TIL that the work of Charles Drew, a pioneer in preserving blood, led to large-scale blood bank use, U.S. blood donations to Britons in WWII, and the use of bloodmobiles. He resigned as chief of the first American Red Cross blood bank over a policy that separated the blood of black and white people.
kOKy1 TIL the original name for the snowmobile brand Ski-Doo was "Ski-Dog", but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure meant the current name stuck.
BrLXL TIL there is an all-female species of lizard, called the desert grassland whiptail lizard, which reproduces asexually.