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TIL The movie Patch Adams hindered the real Patch Adams and his Gesundheit Institute in getting funds to build a hospital as the movie falsely claims the hospital was already built.

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neGKY TIL of Ronald Maddison, a British soldier who died after taking part in a voluntary nerve agent experiment to pay for an engagement ring for his fiance
RQn8 TIL that in your lifetime, you are statistically bound to breathe in one molecule of air that’s been breathed by every other human throughout history
ADB7d TIL about the QWERTY Effect in which people attach more positive meanings to words and names that can be typed with the right hand
wLyGP TIL Having two small children means on average someone is sick in a household 29 weeks out of the year, meaning the household has a sickness more often than it is healthy.
e0D9E TIL of the Knights of Malta, a sovereign entity (part of the U.N. General Assembly) with 13,500 knights, 40,000 doctors and a further 80,000 volunteers. They have only 2 official citizens, but they still issue passports, coins and postage stamps despite having no physical land or territory