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TIL that Maggot Therapy is medical approved by the FDA for improving healing in chronic ulcers. In diabetic foot ulcers there is tentative evidence of benefit.

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ZPlv TIL that former US Secretary of State, political scientist and Nobel prize winner Henry Kissinger quoted saying “Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” He never denied saying that.
dDAA9 TIL the sole surviving passenger of Flight 820 crash in 1973 disobeyed instructions to remain in his seat when a fire started in the rear lavatory. The passenger ran to the forward galley and passed out on the floor. All other passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning, smoke inhalation and fire
oR1r7 TIL Walt Disney voiced Mickey Mouse
Wk7jN TIL about Dorothea Bate, the first female employed by the Natural History Museum. Her life's work involved finding fossils of recently extinct mammals.
R5M7w TIL that sometimes, (part of the) Danube flows into the North Sea via a system of sinkholes and a tributary of the Rhine