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TIL despite being dead, Agatha Christie was able to save a life in 1977 when a nurse who’d read her book ‘The Pale Horse’ that described thallium poisoning so well that the nurse could diagnose a baby the doctors couldn’t. Thallium was found in the baby, and she was given treatments, saving her

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