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TIL €3.80 was the price Scooter paid for his fish. The decade old question now has an answer!

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v1KO4 TIL of Virginia Apgar who invented the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child, and ended up saving countless lives.
L1bQ TIL that St. Augustine of Hippo, a Father of the Church, wrote a prayer as a teenager. It went, “Lord, grant me chastity and continence, but not yet”.
ne4yY TIL Belgium and the Netherlands allow euthanasia for severe treatment-resistant mental illnesses.
LXbd TIL Van Gogh shot himself in the chest and then went and smoked a few cigarettes before finally dying.