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TIL that Casanova, famous for seducing women, was a librarian

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gVX8 TIL in 1978, a Russian physicist, Anatoli Bugorski, was struck accidentally by the proton beam of a particle accelerator. ½ of his face swelled beyond recognition and became paralysed. Amazingly, he survived and completed his PhD. He is still alive today.
GYxDQ TIL about the Werther-Effect, the emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide. Due to this, in Australia it's illegal for media to report suicide as a reason a person has passed.
DvPY TIL Bayer sold a medicine tainted with HIV. Once it was discovered in the US, they continued to sell it overseas for over a year in order to clear stock.
awZE9 TIL in 1994, Russian Premier Boris Yeltsin escaped from the Presedential Guest House in Washington, and was found by the CIA in his underpants, drunk, yelling for a taxi so he could get pizza.
GAJOJ TIL of the winter-over syndrome, which affects scientists working in Antarctica. Symptoms include depression, irritability, aggression, cognitive impairment and a state of hypnosis known as "antarctic stare"