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TIL that a bite from the Lone Star Tick can make you allergic to red meat.

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1OJ8 TIL Robin Williams was responsible for paying all of Christopher Reeve’s hospital bills that his insurance didn’t cover as a result of a promise that the two had made back in college. Best friends forever.
LXvV TIL that a man bought a BMW for $1 because of a mistake on the bidding.
QNZXp TIL during WWII, the code word for "Hitler" was "Crazy white man" for the Comanche Code Talkers
nW9EG TIL: Gerald Barnbaum posed as a doctor for over 20 years. He killed at least one patient due to not being a real doctor and impersonated different doctors in multiple medical facilities in San Francisco earning $400k by 1991. He even got a position where he did checkups on FBI agents.
1a99D TIL about Malone Mukwende. He is actively creating a free medical handbook on skin conditions for POC to bridge the gap of exclusively caucasian examples of various skin afflictions in his medical textbooks.