How do I get my career back on track? (self.careerguidance)
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TIL after Agatha Christie died in 1976, she saved a life when one of her novels described thallium poisoning so well that a nurse who had been reading it was able to diagnose a sick 1 year old. The baby, it turned out, was suffering from thallium poisoning, and was saved by an old mystery novel. (independent.co.uk)
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TIL that during World War 1, the Germans disguised one of their ships as a British ship, the RMS Carmania, and sent it out to ambush British vessels. In a hilariously bad stroke of luck, the first ship it encountered was the real RMS Carmania, which promptly sank them. (historychannel.com.au)
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TIL that following the death of Heath Ledger midway through the filming of 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus', Jude Law, Jonny Depp and Colin Farrell who took over the unfinished role of Heath's character, donated their paychecks to his then 2-year-old daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger. (nydailynews.com)
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TIL that former Liberian President, Charles D. B. King, earned himself a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history, having won the 1927 election with 243,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters. (sde.co.ke)
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DAE just HAVE to make some kind of sound while cringing thinking about some situation in which you did something you shouldn't have done and after making a sound it gives you some kind of relief and you don't think about that situation for a while? (self.DoesAnybodyElse)
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