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TIL: Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin shared a tortoise

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eyo5 TIL that in order to prove that the bacteria H. pylori could cause stomach ulcers, an Australian doctor named Barry J. Marshall drank a culture of H. pylori, developed an ulcer, and successfully treated it with antibiotics. He won a Nobel Prize for it in 2005.
nW47o TIL that Russia has 10 ‘nuclear cities’ which were kept a secret from even Russias population until 1993, no one was allowed in or out yet it had full functioning populations in.