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TIL that the United States spends more per person on healthcare than any other developed country yet 1/3rd of its healthcare expenditures are depleted by administrative overhead, about $750 billion.

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xVmWw TIL Alfred Thomson, British Artist, became the last person to win a Gold Medal for painting as medals for art. The 1948 Olympic Games in London would be the last time art was a category in the Olympics.
WkVLX TIL Gilles de Rais, 13th century child serial killer and companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, depleted his wealth performing occult experiments including three attempted summonings of a demon named Barron.
Bjwe TIL In an early script for Star Trek: The Motion Picture Kirk was set to fight Jesus on the bridge of the Enterprise
M71Q7 TIL that the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology conducted an "autopsy" of the failed Friendster social network to determine the causes of its collapse
VLbB TIL that Mark Wahlberg had committed 20-25 offenses by the age of 21. These included throwing rocks at a bus full of black schoolchildren and knocking a Vietnamese man unconscious and blinding another. He was also addicted to cocaine by age 13.