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TIL about Dr. Leonoid Rogozov, a physician who took part in an antarctic expedition in 1961, developed appendicitis and successfully performed a self-appendectomy with the help of a driver and meteorologist at their Antarctic research station.

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DQAeD TIL that just before WW1 began, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey was heard to say ominously, “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”
Z5Jo TIL Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture. In the U.S.A., voices are harsh and threatening while those heard by schizophrenics in Africa and India tend to be more benign and playful.
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