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TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
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TIL - Modern mammals are unique among vertebrates for possessing three tiny bones in the middle ear, which are unique in that they are separated from the jaw, critical because it allows the separation of hearing and chewing, and also allows hearing of high-pitched noises.
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