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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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a8AxN TIL sully landed the miracle on the Hudson plane purposely near boats to facilitate rescue. The boats arrived within minutes to rescue passengers.
ZpvOY TIL that the anti-AIDS drug Ritonavir had to be taken off the market after scientists accidentally synthesized a second, medically useless form of the drug. The new form assimilated all the samples it touched, making them equally useless. A microscopic quantity of it was enough to halt production.
AD8J4 TIL: NASA creates movie-style posters for astronaut missions, including parodies of Star Wars, The Beatles, and Pirates of the Caribean
nePw9 TIL the field of archaeoacoustics looks at the possibility of extracting sound from ancient objects.
rv1W TIL that the last episode of the 80s kids’ cartoon “David the Gnome” involves the main character and his wife going into the mountains for a death ritual. They die and turn into trees.