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TIL about George Epooch, a Jesuit priest who abused dozens of indigenous children throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s

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By4y TIL Molly Pitcher manned a cannon during the Revolutionary War when her husband fainted from heat stroke or injury. She didn’t back down, even when a cannonball shot the skirt from between her legs.
epMQJ TIL that recurring eyelash lice in children is an indicator of probable child SA.
764x TIL that when Koichi Tanaka of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, he became the first to only have a bachelor’s degree. Tanaka was so unknown that he was on the second-lowest job level at the obscure Shimadzu Corp. The embarrassed scientific-instrument maker immediately promoted Tanaka.
GAyJE TIL about Lampo the train dog, who memorized the Italian train schedule and used the system to travel around the country and return home at sunset all on his own.
OWMg TIL there are at least 5 confirmed cases of women successfully giving themselves C-sections. One involved a Mexican village woman with no medical training, who after 12 hrs of labor pains, took 3 shots of liquor, cut into her uterus with a kitchen knife, & retrieved her baby alive after an hour.