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TIL about one of the first recorded non-binary people, the "Public Universal Friend"

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R76b7 TIL in the anatomy building at Dalian Medical University, where medical student can practice on cadavers, there's a sign with a quote from a donor that reads "I’d rather let students try something 20 times on me than see them make one mistake on a future patient.”
xVNGo TIL that ventilators used to be respirators that holds a patient in an air-tight horizontal chamber with patient’s head out, pumping negative pressure to help the patient breathe back in 1930-1950s due to the polio epidemic
xVEDb TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.
aAdJ TIL Johnny Cash’s ‘A Boy Named Sue’ was actually written by Shel Silverstein
oler TIL That there are plots in porn because it used to be illegal to make pornography without plots in the 90s under the obscenity law