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TIL Dr. Martin A. Couney saved thousands of infants by an unorthodox method of putting incubators of prematurely born babies on display. While technically being a carnival show on Coney Island, the treatment of babies was ethically sound and paid for itself. He made the incubator what it is today.

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eoyJ TIL trains were invented before bicycles
jL6p TIL an optimized road trip stopping at a major landmark in most of Europe would take roughly 14 days of driving to complete
wonXJ TIL after a failed coup attempt in Japan, Masakatsu Morita acted as a second for the leader's seppuku. After 3 failed attempts to behead him, another man performed the deed. Morita then attempted seppuku himself, but stabbed himself too shallow to be fatal, and had to request his own beheading.
AO57 TIL that the past two governors of Illinois, and four past governors in four decades, have been sentenced to prison for corruption
kOgOm TIL of Otto Skorenzy, the 6' 4" 250lb German solider listed by MI5 as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe. Part of the Nazi Werewolf operations and responsible for a raid on a mountaintop castle, he allegedly went on to work for Mossad.