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TIL Mother Teresa considered suffering a gift from God and was criticized for her clinics’ lack of care and malnutrition of patients.

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eOpk TIL in 1987 Al Sharpton accused a police officer and prosecutor of abducting and raping a 15yo named Tawana Brawley. The girl was lying so she wouldn’t get in trouble for staying out late, both her and Sharpton were later found guilty of slander. Sharpton has never apologized for the incident.
OoEOL TIL a Banned Singaporean martial arts film from 1973 was remastered & screened in 2017 & is now on YouTube after 45 years.
95ND TIL in World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.
b9Zoa TIL that both Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi tried to kill themselves during adolescence, and that both suffered severe bouts of depression later in life.
1Nj4 TIL that during the Holocaust, Polish doctors Eugene Lazowski and Stanisław Matulewicz saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake Typhus epidemic. The Germans quarantined the area instead of risking outbreaks by sending them to concentration camps.