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TIL Mother Teresa was criticized by the medical press for her view on ‘suffering’, which she enacted at her 'Home for the Dying’ in Calcutta, with her position being “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot… the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”

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4X8GX TIL in 2003 there was a tv show called “There’s something about Miriam” that featured six men wooing 21-year-old Mexican model Miriam without revealing that she was a pre-operative trans woman until the final episode.
wYjY TIL that Cubans developed a drug called Heberprot-P as a cure for diabetic foot ulcer with a success rate of 90%.
ZpAjG TIL that in the late 19th Century, German immigrants were among the first to cultivate oranges in California and on the West Coast, forever transforming the agriculture and economy of that region of the United States.
d88ZZ TIL: That that little jeans pocket inside your actual jeans pocket originaly was designed to protect cowboys watches.
nxXb TIL that Missing No. is considered the glitch that pushed Pokemon to “gaming super stardom” and has even inspired sociological research!