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TIL A 15 year old from Wisconsin is the first person ever to survive rabies without a shot after the doctor suggested an experiment to put her in a medically induced coma, shutting her brain down, allowing her body to fight the rabies without spreading.

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d8wK7 TIL that Sojourner Truth's famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman", was altered by a white abolitionist, who rewrote her speech for publication in a stereotypical "southern black slave dialect". Truth actually grew up speaking Dutch and took pride in her "fairly correct English"
1ad9V TIL Martin Van Buren is presently the only US President who spoke English as a second language.
4X5Ka TIL the hops used in beer have concentrations of phytoestrogens 50 times more potent than what’s in soy. In fact, even moderate amounts of beer cause an estrogenic effect that lasts for days in men's bodies
1Ja7 TIL The whoopee cushion is older than Christianity
4kRPX TIL How a Modified Iraqi Dassault Falcon 50 Business Jet almost Sank a US Navy Frigate