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TIL Nancy Astor told Winston Churchill “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea,” to which he responded, “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”

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NXeA8 TIL Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor, was a surgeon in the Civil War and an abolitionist who fought for women's dress reform and women's suffrage

JYMxV TIL that Tutankhamun's mummy contains oldest known genetic proof of malaria.

0w0rN TIL that when a tumor is discovered by accident (like when doing an MRI for an unrelated reason) it is commonly referred to as an "incidentaloma." While some are, the majority of incidentalomas are not cancerous.

ADgWx TIL Freud never cured a single patient, saw psychoanalysis largely as a way to make money and once told a patient her sore throat was a symptom of her unconscious desire to suck her father's penis

BrvQx TIL that the reason why most birds sleep on one leg is that they have no plumage there. They therefore lift a leg up to keep it warm and thus limit heat exchange while maintaining the possibility of flying away quickly in case of danger.