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TIL that anxiety and/or stress can cause fevers.

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QROe TIL A defense lawyer (who was also a congressman) in a murder trial accidentally shot himself and died while reenacting the possibility of a victim accidentally shooting and killing themselves instead of his client; the defendant was then set free.
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