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TIL of Dr Girard-Mangin, the first female doctor serving during WWI.

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R5897 TIL of a bee that eats dead flesh and produces "meat honey."
X0GQ8 TIL about the iridium anomaly, an unusual abundance of iridium in the Earth's rock layers which are 66 million years old. This suggest that the extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs was caused by a meteorite impact, as iridium is much more abundant in meteorites than it is on Earth.
eXAg TIL Canada’s most southern point is below the most northern points of 27 U.S. states including California
0wY5M TIL that in the movie 'Titanic' , if you take away the modern-day scenes and the credits, the runtime is the same time it took for the real ship to sink (2 hours and 40 minutes).
NXYx6 TIL that in 1835, Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson, marking the first such attempt on a sitting U.S. president. Lawrence's two pistols both misfired, allowing Jackson who was 67 at the time to respond by beating him with his cane until he was restrained.