The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.

After the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.

Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.

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