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About Blog Contact Ideas Sam Enright The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities Jan 23rd, 2023 I have spent a lot of time browsing Wikipedia. It’s one of my most common procrastination activities. For some time, I’ve been collecting my favourite articles, presented here for your reading pleasure.
I found some of these through @depthsofwikipedia , Aella , and various links aggregators , but I don’t remember which articles came from where!
In killing both the patient and two other employees at the hospital, Robert Liston performed “the only known surgery in history with a 300 percent mortality rate”.