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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/2rascallydogs on 2023-08-13 02:28:44+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the first cure for tuberculosis, streptomycin, was developed by a 23 year old grad student at Rutgers, Albert Schatz. It was also effective against other penicillin resistant infections and the first life saved with the drug was a young lieutenant wounded in Italy named Bob Dole.