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TIL that the largest island of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu was originally named "La Austrialia [sic] del Espíritu Santo" - after both the monarchy of Austria (ancestors of the Spanish monarchs) and the Great Southern Continent, Terra Australis (which Australia was later named for)

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ne8MB TIL about Mary Mallon, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, who spread it in New York city in the 1900s. Dr. George Soper discovered every establishment she worked in as a cook had an outbreak of typhoid and warned her to wash her hands but she ignored him and continued to spread it all over the city
4X1mX TIL a parasitic amoeba called Naegleria fowleri. Once this amoeba enters the sinuses, it makes its way to the brain and causes a fatal infection
aP90 TIL Carrie Fisher was addicted to cocaine AND survived an overdose during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back.
QNQOX TIL Rapunzel Syndrome is a rare medical condition where engested hair extends past the small intestine, forming the apperance of a "tail"
b9Pp0 TIL:word mummy derives from Arabic word "mumiya" a substance which was used as a medicine .Bitumen, another substance was used in process of mummfication had a similar name"mumia".Europeans confused the words and thought "mumiya" refers to real mummies and thus started eating mummies as medicine