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GA1d4 TIL that in 1930, Vivien Thomas, an African American carpenter’s apprentice who didn’t go to Medical School, a long side Dr Alfred Blalock successfully devised an operation to save “Blue Babies”, infants born with a deadly heart defect that sends blood past their lungs
grnOL TIL 5% of Americans have Gilbert's syndrome, which affects the liver's ability to process bilirubin. People with GS are less likely to develop heart disease due to the antioxidant nature of bilirubin.
YpAOx TIL of Iranian painter Mohamed Sciddel who was commissioned to paint murals in the main church in Uruapan, Michoacán and decided to live the rest of his life in Mexico to promote art in the region after being exiled from Iran following the 1979 revolution
54XQ TIL the PO-2 is the only biplane with a documented kill of a jet fighter by making it slow down so much it crashed.
rlgd TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.