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TIL That the Kingdom of Armenia was the first state in history to adopt Christianity as its official religion.

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mxkXY TIL that an American army doctor who served in Vietnam returned an arm he’d amputated to its owner, a Vietnamese soldier, 47 years after he took it as a souvenir of a good deed. They met each other’s children and grandchildren and joked about which of them had been better looking back in the war.
ADDYn TIL an an American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
dxnQ TIL that, in 1957, a terminal cancer patient was given a worthless drug that caused his tumors to “melt like snowballs on a hot stove.” When he found out it was proven worthless, his cancer returned. He was given a placebo version and it went away again. He learned the truth, then died soon after.
DQXmP TIL the probability of a blue lobster existing is about one in two million
EmZP TIL a man bitten by a poisonous coral snake killed the reptile by biting off its head then used its skin as a tourniquet