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TIL Semmelweis (1818-1865) guessed the importance of asepsis to fight puerperal fever: he proposed to wash hands before visiting pregnant women. However, his colleagues didn't believe him because microbiology and germs were not yet discovered and Semmelweis couldn't prove definitely his theory.

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ZpY9B TIL Over 900,000 earthquakes occur worldwide each year.
nWNDo TIL: "The Yellow Deli" A Cult Owned Restaurant That Specializes in Having Unpaid Workers Cook and Perform Manual Labor for the Cause. And Also Need "144,000 Male Virgins to Sacrifice" For Their God
jNe4a TIL Nikola Tesla, a man who spoke 8 languages, made dozens of inventions, was 1.88 m tall and is known to us as one of the greatest geniuses ever, once said "that he felt he could never be worthy enough for a woman, considering women superior in every way."
nLGd TIL that Nepal is the only country in the world that has a non-quadrilateral flag.
9mJG TIL: USAF Project Thor (aka “Rods from God”) consisted of dropping telephone pole sized tungsten rods from space. This would provide global strike faster than an ICBM, be nearly impossible to defend against, and would hit the earth at Mach 10 causing the devastation of a tactical nuclear warhead.