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TIL Using a chloroform soaked rag as an incapacitating agent is pure fiction. It is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform in this manner.

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5Yxbp TIL the first successful artificial insemination was performed in 1884 on a Philadelphia housewife without her knowledge. The doctor anesthetized the woman and took sperm from his “best-looking” student and impregnated her. The doctor and the woman’s husband never revealed the truth to her.
6EooZ TIL about the Soong sister's of China. They lived through years of war and revolution and helped shape the history of their nation. They married major public figures of opposing political factions and became prominent political figures in their own right.
R5kR4 TIL the first chiropractor was a Canadian who claimed he received a message from a ghost
NQw8 TIL that airlines don’t pay tax on fuel
W7ewB TIL that Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door. He cut a hole in his door to let his cat in and out, inadvertently creating the first pet door.