did-you-kno:

Despite being dead for over a year,
famous author Agatha Christie saved a
baby’s life in 1977. Her novel The Pale
Horse described thallium poisoning so
well that a nurse who’d been reading it
was able to diagnose a sick infant, who
had doctors stumped. The baby was
immediately tested, they found traces
of thallium, doctors changed treatments,
and her life had suddenly been saved by
a 16-year-old murder mystery novel. Source Source 2 Source 3

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