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BPgd TIL that in 1986, nurse Sandra Clarke could not stay with a patient who asked her to stay. When she returned, the patient had died alone. In 2001, she was key in starting No One Dies Alone, a program where volunteers sit with terminal patients who have no one else. The program is now world-wide.
Or76 TIL that Tibetan monks must get permission from the Chinese government to reincarnate
VnbG TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money.
WWy4 TIL that the word lunatic comes from people thinking that the moon could cause madness.
nE6P TIL that global production of vanilla wasn’t possible before a 12 year old slave named Edmund Albius discovered a method of artificial pollination in 1841.