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TIL that Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis was an early pioneer of washing your hands during surgery but this concept conflicted with the established scientific/medical opinions of the time and he was committed to an asylum.

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ANkJd TIL about Franca Viola and the fact that in Italy up until 1981 an accusation of sexual violence would lapse if the perpetrator married his victim in what was called "Rehabilitating Marriage"
Xv8 TIL that since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Israeli Air Force has lost only 18 planes in dogfights while downing 817 Arab planes in air to air combat
9w4vB TIL The median compensation at Open AI (the company that does Chat GPT) is $616,650, and the top compensation is $905,556.
grdPX TIL of the Fiat Mio: a futuristic concept car based on the ideas of thousands of people around the world. Even then the car was never produced
VBVLp TIL that a polar bear liver has enough vitamin A to kill 52 adults! Ito cells are cells in the liver that store Vitamin A (Lipid soluble). High Vitamin A production in marine algae at the bottom of the food chain results in polar bear livers with enough Vitamin A to last a human 143 years!