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TIL - The man who unsuccessfully treated President Garfield after he was shot, Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss (First name Doctor), was expelled from the Washington DC Medical Society for his advocacy of homeopathy and his refusal to support the society's segregation of black doctors.

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4kmK5 TIL of Silas Simmons, the oldest living baseball player of all time. Born in 1895, he played in the Negro Leagues from 1913-1929. After baseball, he was a porter and a department store manager. He died in 2006 at the age of 111, having outlived all 5 of his children and both of his wives
1oMr TIL in Russia many doctors “treat” alcoholism by surgically implanting a small capsule into their patients. The capsules react so severely with alcohol that once the patient touches a single drop, they instantly acquire an excruciating illness of similar intensity to acute heroin withdrawal
pYm98 TIL Ted Bundy briefly worked at a Suicide Hotline Crisis Center
08Oy TIL Stephen Fry was best man at Hugh Laurie’s wedding (Dr. House) as well as Rowan Atkinson’s wedding (Mr. Bean), and attended the wedding of Prince Charles
4Ejg TIL in 1961 a B-52 broke up over Goldsboro, NC dropping two 3.8MT H-bombs, each exceeding the yield of all detonations in worldwide history by TNT, gunpowder, conv. bombs, and the WWII nuclear blasts combined. One came perilously close to detonating and creating “a very large Bay of North Carolina.“