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TIL Japan’s First Female Photojournalist is Still Shooting at the Age of 101

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VMVKm TIL German biologist Stefan Lanka, who believed that measles was a "psychosomatic illness", announced that he would pay 100,000 Euros to anyone who could prove that measles was a virus. German doctor David Barden proved him wrong and Lanka was ordered by the court to pay the money as promised.
vDG7 TIL in the 12th Century, two children appeared in Woolpit, England with bright green skin. Neither of the children were ever formally identified.
LQMkd TIL that Moroccan troops fought on both sides of the First Indochina War.
Z8oPo TIL That One of the names for Storms this Year is "Nana"
p8P7b TIL Cheryl Pierson was being abused by her dad but when he threatened to abuse her sister, 9, she hired a classmate to kill him. The judge was lenient on them both. When Cheryl got out, she wrote a book & the classmate went back to prison to run their college program.