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TIL: Medical professionals are more likely to believe women’s symptoms are ‘all in their head’ compared to men. Women have to fight for their symptoms to be taken seriously even in serious cases such as brain tumours.

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l7LP1 TIL of the Red Ghost, a legend about a demonic figure roaming Arizona in the late 1800's and once killed a woman. It turned out to be a feral camel with the decaying corpse of a man strapped on its back, likely a result of Jefferson Davis' attempt to create a camel division in the US army
DQLLY TIL German composer Richard Strauss completed roughly 140 compositions between the ages of 6 and 16, including almost 60 songs & more than 40 piano works.
mxW1M TIL the song “Buffalo Gals” was likely written in 1844 by a blackface minstrel nicknamed Cool White.
nWw17 TIL the movie Rollerball (2002 version) was released with a PG-13 rating but was filmed and later released in an R rated version, which contained only "3 minutes of discarded violence and nudity" not used in the PG-13 version.
x68B0 TIL that there is a variety of flower known as cockscomb that folds in on itself, looking similar to a brain. This "folding" is known as cresting, and is due to the variety having 36 chromosomes instead of the normal 72 chromosomes of its species.