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TIL that Gloria Ramirez earned the nickname "The Toxic Lady" because doctors and nurses became ill after airborne exposure to her body. She had cervical cancer, and while treating her, three hospital workers fainted, and others experienced symptoms such as shortness of breath and muscle spasms.

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4Xabb TIL Canadian Inuk writer Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk never had formal education before she was twenty. In the 1950s, she started writing a novel in Inuktitut syllabics when a missionary asked her to write some sentences in Inuktitut so he could learn the language
4XRwo TIL Jackfruit is one of the biggest food trends among vegetarians, vegans and even meat lovers. While it is technically a fruit, its consistency is similar to that of chicken or pork
R54P4 TIL in 2010, the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission ate nothing but potatoes for two months. He lost 21 pounds, his cholesterol went down 67 points, his blood sugar lowered and the blood chemistry—the iron, the calcium, the protein—either stayed the same or got better.
xVwo TIL that Prince recalled an album days before it’s release because he had a bad MDMA experience and thought the record was evil.
6EMkZ TIL Dr. Freeman was a physician who had a loboto-mobile that travelled across the country and he performed lobotomies by hammering an ice pick into the eye sockets of the patients without the use of anesthesia.