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TIL of the Nightingale Pledge, a modified Hippocratic Oath named in honor of Florence Nightingale, US nurses take at their graduation ceremony

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kO9Xm TIL that a butcher in Vienna, Austria made Sausages he learnt in Frankfurt, Germany, changing the recipe slightly and called them "Frankfurter". It got so famous that the world (including Germany) calls them Wiener now apart from the people in Austria who call it Frankfurter.
vyv8 TIL that the US only lets in 65,000 immigrants eligible for the H-1B visa, a visa for educated immigrants, a year, and that they can only stay for three years, extendable to six years.
r0d1 TIL San Diego woman, Concetta Antico, having ‘Super Vision’, unique genetic mutation, can see 100 times more colors than the average person. The genetic mutation causes one to gain a 4th color-vision cone in their eyes.
Eg40o TIL about the Hocker Album, discovered in 2006, one of the only known photo albums providing irrefutable evidence that top nazi commanders were at Auschwitz.
Yp0wr TIL that Mel Brooks originally wanted to name his Star Wars spoof movie, Planet Moron. Which was later abandoned due to another movie that was released with similar titles. Brooks and his collaborators came up with what we know as a cult classic, Space Balls.