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TIL Syphilis was known as the "French disease" in Europe as is rumored to have been conceived in the 15th century after the French army was celebrating a victory in Naples, Italy

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pOdA TIL of James Allan Ward. In WW2, the right wing of his Wellington bomber was set afire by a german fighter. He took a canvas cover, crawled onto the wing in mid-flight and put the fire out. His plane landed safely back in Great Britain.
QNE16 TIL that occasionally, when a woman gives birth, she is unable to deliver the placenta, so a doctor will have to reach into the uterus and manually extract it, which is oftentimes far more painful than the delivery itself.
G6R7 TIL… Australia is moving 7cm north every year. It is the fastest moving continental landmass in the world.
ZgD TIL a group of Ukrainian students have developed gloves that translate sign language into speech.
paPZ TIL there’s a website that catalogs people with different accents reading the same story in English… and you can access them for free!