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TIL of a surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.

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JYGQv TIL the subject of "Christina's World," one of the best-known American paintings of the middle 20th century, was Anna Christina Olson. The artist was inspired after observing her crawling across a field, which was due to her medical conditions- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, a genetic polyneuropathy.
6EpJ7 TIL that in 2014 Korean Air vice president Heather Cho was so angry about receiving macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate, she forced the plane to taxi back to gate and unload the offending flight attendant. "Nutgate" ended up costing her 5 months in jail
RGy6 TIL that Coca-Cola is sold (officially) in every country in the world except Cuba and North Korea.
m1vEo TIL that George Washington was a flexitarian, who ate a diet largely of “a vegitable and milk diet", with a minimum of red meat, and who tried to made sure his army got vegetables to eat
NkLM TIL on May 19, 1713, two hundred citizens rioted on the Boston Common due to a food shortage in the city. They later attacked the ships and warehouses of wealthy merchant Andrew Belcher, who was exporting grain to the Caribbean for higher profits. The lieutenant governor was shot during the riot.