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TIL of a 1950's doctor who transfused his sick patient's blood into his own body to understand her condition better. Impressive and scary!

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kOlkB TIL the Nintendo 64 is named "64" because of it`s processor architecture, this being of 64 bits
4XAZJ TIL of Twitch Plays Pokemon. A social experiment where internet users collaborated to beat Pokemon Red in just over 16 days. Generally regarded as a classic internet moment, the event holds the world record for "the most participants on a single-player online videogame" with 1,165,140.
Lrpm TIL In 1986, there were plans to put Big Bird on the space shuttle, to encourage kids to get interested in space. There wasn’t enough room for the puppet, and Caroll Spinney, who portrays the 8-foot-2 bird, was replaced by a teacher. It was for a seat on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger.
aRV0 TIL that the word “idiot” originally referred to an Athenian citizen who didn’t participate in their city-state’s democracy and vote
7Lop TIL that Pepsi and Coca-Cola are used as Pesticide by Farmers in India as they are cheap and get the job done.