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TIL in 1931 a 15 year old went to a hospital in Chicago and was mistakenly given a transfusion of blood from a parrot because the physician misheard the doctor’s instruction to “use her parents’ blood.” The hospital staff frantically searched for a parrot and extracted its blood for injection

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69v1m TIL:That Albert Einstein was a big fan of the puppet show Time For Beany. During one high level conference, he interrupted to say, "You will have to excuse me, gentlemen. It's Time for Beany."
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rNew4 TIL that, about quantum physics, while Einstein thought something was missing in our knowledge, Bohr thought that our reality is a fantasy and the real truth is quantum weirdeness. Bohr meant that, on a large scale, certain quantum properties disappear (quantum decoherence).
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