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TIL that in 2009, before specific whistleblower protection laws, two nurses in TX were fired and charged with unrelated felonies after reporting unsafe medical care from a physician they worked under

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Ajwx TIL that for the first 6 years of Pavarotti’s career, he couldn’t get paid singing roles and had to work as an elementary school teacher and insurance salesman to support himself.
5Y9l8 TIL that in a double-blind study, involving both new and Stradivari, expert violinists preferred new violins, voted the Strads the worst sounding and could not tell if their preferred violin was new or antique
n8Eb TIL 400 million years ago, there were giant mushrooms as tall as a tree – 26 feet tall and about 3 feet wide
RNyl TIL Ice cream floats used to be so popular that some local governments made it a controlled substance
mxYZR For his Lux Noctis series, Reuben Wu programmed a light-bearing drone (a 3DR Solo UAV carrying a Fiilex AL250 light) to follow specific paths around his subjects as he photographed them using long exposures. The results are a set of UFO-friendly vistas that feature monumental scenery illuminated in totally unnatural ways – like this shot of a rocky crest lit from above by a sci-fi halo.