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TIL we use the word cancer as a medical diagnosis because Hippocrates thought the tumors looked like crabs

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nP7 TIL the character of Peter Pan was based off of the author of the books’ older brother who died in an ice skating accident the day before his 14th birthday; and thus always remained a young boy in the eyes of his family.
9K1m TIL 118 people were charged after 9/11 with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs when a computer failure caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center allowed unlimited access to money
80g4 TIL that in 1968, science fiction writer and atheist Isaac Asimov published “Asimov’s guide to the Bible”. Asimov treats the secular aspects of the Bible with intellectual instead of theological commentary.
wLmL1 TIL that George Washington ordered a ceasefire during the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to its owner, Sir William Howe, a British general. The dog was found wandering the battlefield and was fed and cleaned before being returned to Howe.
KOmeE TIL Darwin believed that white people were more evolved than black people. He also believed that males were superior to females.