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TIL that the real Patch Adams things depression is a pharmaceutical diagnosis that was invented for the companies to sell drugs.

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4XBxb TIL of Mary Seacole a Jamaican-born nurse who applied to join Florence Nightingale in Crimea, but was turned down due to her race. Instead of giving up, Seacole sailed to the Crimea at her own expense and set up a hotel to tend to sick and wounded soldiers.
nQMB TIL Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a real bear, Winnipeg who lived in the London Zoo 1915-1935
Ebgp TIL that the coldest place in the known universe is in a laboratory right here on Earth.
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