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TIL King Zog of Albania survived 55 assasination attempts

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0Zdv TIL- Doctor ignaz discovered that by washing his hands between delivering babys cut the mortality rate of infection from 35% to less than 1%. His ideas were rejected by the medical community and upset other doctors so much they put him in a insane asylum. He was beaten to death 14 days later
16X7V TIL that Marco Apicella has the shortest F1 career in history. Upon spinning his car in practice at the 1993 Italian Grand Prix, he managed to qualify in P23 for the race, only to crash his car on the first chicane, breaking his arm and ending his F1 career just seconds into his first race
4DQX TIL a guy in South Africa walked into a supermarket, strolled into the butchery area, bent down and swiped his neck across the meat saw, cutting off his head.
xGb TIL that Bayer, famous for producing aspirin, purchased prisoners from Auschwitz to test new drugs.
ADB7d TIL about the QWERTY Effect in which people attach more positive meanings to words and names that can be typed with the right hand