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TIL that most "spider bites" may actually be misdiagnosed MRSA infections

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joWv TIL a Baltimore woman locked a police officer in her basement when he tried searching her home without a warrant. She sued and won a settlement.
N7ZWE TIL about Jim LeBlanc, the only man to survive a vacuum. He was a spacesuit technician, and entered a simulated vacuum to test a spacesuit, when his pressurization hose malfunctioned. He passed out in fourteen seconds, but survived with only an earache.
M7ALA TIL about the 1899 Horsey Horseless, a design for an early automobile which contained a wooden horse head and neck attached to the front of the car in an attempt to not frighten horses.
VMl5Q TIL that due to Bengal famine in 1770 almost 10 million people died in Bengal in 4 years eliminating 1/3rd of the population. This led to huge reduction in land Revenues of the East India Company which then influenced British to pass Tea act to reduce its troubles which led to Boston Tea Party.
R7dK9 TIL Susannah Mushatt Jones: World's oldest person says that she eats bacon every day