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TIL about Sofia Ionescu, the First Woman Neurosurgeon in the World

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mxQNR TIL the US was sold Kazakhstan’s uranium supply through a diplomat’s car mechanic
Y7EmA TIL in Germany, drivers stuck in traffic on the Autobahn must leave an emergency lane in the middle of the road at all times. (Also Austria & Switzerland).
WklJA TIL In 2019, a potato chip factory in Hong Kong found a World War I grenade in a shipment of French-grown potatoes, just as the potatoes were going through their processing machines.
4k61o TIL composer Robert Schumann would often plunge his hands into the entrails of a dead animal to cure any illness he was suffering from.
lVBG TIL in 1826, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism) was brought before a Chenango County court for “glass-looking”, or pretending to find lost treasure.