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TIL in the early 1900s Wagner von Jauregg treated syphilis patients with malaria (winning the Nobel Prize). The patients developed malaria, causing a severe fever and killed the syphilis bacteria. Then given the malaria drug quinine and cured. This was used until the development of penicillin

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dnN7 TIL the sound of Krakatoa erupting was so loud that it circled the Earth FOUR times.
YNNx TIL the Event Horizon Telescope not only took the first photos of a black hole, it’s powerful enough to count the stitches on a baseball 8,000 miles away.
pk5G TIL that a Polish patriot allowed himself to be captured by the nazis in WW2 to be sent to Auschwitz. Inside the camp, he formed a underground resistance group that did a variety of things such as morale and passing on Intel to the outside. First detailed report of the holocaust. He soon escaped.
QAEM TIL pancakes are one of mankind’s oldest prepared foods, and virtually every culture has their own version of them.
EpGV TIL Andre the Giant died in a hotel in Paris. He was in Paris to attend his father’s funeral.