Did Typhoid Mary really exist?

Yes, Typhoid Mary’s name was Mary Mallon (1870-1938).

She was an institutional and household cook who spread the disease from house to house in the New York City area in the early twentieth century.

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Was Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason ever a lawyer? Yes, Erle Stanley Gardner was a lawyer. Born in 1889, he was admitted to the California bar in 1911 and was known for defending poor Chinese and Mexicans. In the 1940s, he founded…
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