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TIL of Christopher Duntsch, a surgeon so drug-fueled and incompetent he maimed 33 of 38 patients he operated on and was the first convicted of crime in the practice of surgery medicine
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TIL Women live longer than men, but spend significantly more of those years battling illness and disability.
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TIL the tiny white dots you see in the blue sky are your white blood cells moving through the small blood vessels in front of your retina.
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TIL The classic NBC sitcoms Cheers and Frasier were (and still are) Paramount productions.
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TIL Texas was it’s own country for ten years
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TIL that what we call a bird's "backward knee" is actually its ankle, as most birds' thigh bones are hidden within their bodies.
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TIL Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a Hanafuda card shop. The cards became so popular with the Yakuza that they based their full-body tattoos on Nintendo’s original illustrations. The cards eventually fell out of favor in the 1960s, leading Nintendo to reinvent itself through video games.
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TIL the little white dots in your sight when looking at the clear blue sky is your white blood cells not being absorbed by light
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TIL there is a radio station in a volcano on Ascension Island. The radio station was funded by the US Armed Forces, and operated from 1958 to 2009
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TIL a couple walking their dog found 1,427 buried gold coins valued at about $10 million, the largest known buried gold-coin discovery ever recovered in the United States.
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TIL Dr. Seuss wrote a book called "Boners" and then a sequel called "More Boners", followed by "Still More Boners" and finally "Prize Boners for 1932"
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TIL that Saul Bellow, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Tony Randall are all among the top 50 oldest fathers on record