How Taking a Selfie Ended Up Saving One Woman's Life

One Woman Went Suddenly Blind

Vanessa had spent an ordinary day out with her two young children, and she recalls the moment she buckled them into the car after a day at the park was her last color memory. Her story of going blind seemingly overnight is terrifying. Doctors refused to take her seriously even though she insisted something was very wrong...

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The More You Know

  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • More people visit France than any other country.
  • Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
  • Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day.
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