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Doctors Loved Their Cigarettes

Don't you miss the good old days, when witch doctors would prescribe you cocaine to cure the ghosts in your blood, and your primary care physician smoked a pack of Camels while diagnosing you with polio?

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The More You Know

  • Pittsburgh is the only city where all three major sports teams share the same colors.
  • 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.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Bloodhounds are great marathoners.
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