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TIL “Stopped” was the last word of British surgeon & anatomist, Joseph Henry Green (1791 - 1863), while feeling his own pulse.

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VMG84 TIL That John Snow was an early pioneer of epidemiology and used diligent research and contact tracing to identify the source of a cholera epidemic in Soho, London. Officials initially rejected his findings but a detractor eventually published findings confirming Snow's assertions.
R5Z46 TIL that in 1973, artist Chris Burden took a handgun, aimed it at an airplane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport, and fired several shots. The act was filmed for a performative art piece titled 747. The piece was meant to depict the idea that you cannot regulate everybody.
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ADAdx TIL of the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, a public monument in London commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.