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TIL who else is in the LPGA Hall of Fame alongside New Zealand's Lydia Ko.

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E1wJo TIL Mike May, who became blind at age 3, got his sight back after more than 40 years but still had no idea how to see after his operation. Even though his eyes now worked perfectly, the visual part of his brain was so underdeveloped that it could not make any sense of the information coming in.
4XyLX TIL that during the Continuation War the Finnish Army used the Säkkijärven Polkka to disarm radio-controlled mines
Me1oB TIL that malaria was once used to treat syphilis. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg injected sufferers with malaria-infected blood, causing an extremely high fever that would ultimately kill the disease. Jauregg won the Nobel Prize for the treatment and it remained in use until the development of penicillin.
4Xxnw TIL that the bullet lodged inside President Garfield likely didn't cause his death. At the time, Joseph Lister's ideas about germs had been widely accepted in Europe, but American doctors were still sceptical. Garfield's doctors used unsterilised instruments, causing an infection which killed him.
W7k49 TIL that FDR was 39 years old when he contracted "infantile paralysis", the contemporary name for polio