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TIL that Peter Pan has been owned by Great Ormond Street hospital since 1927 - the rights were gifted by the author

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XBlP TIL the first man to perform cardiac catheterization, did it on himself then walked downstairs to the radiology department to take the x-ray to prove you would not die. He was fired, became a Nazi, then won the Nobel Prize.
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