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TIL in 2007, a 73-year-old man underwent surgery and suffered "anesthesia awareness" -- a condition where the patient is conscious and feels pain but is paralyzed and cannot alert the surgeon. The man's resulting PTSD led him to suicide, prompting a lawsuit against the anesthesiologists.

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LB0p TIL th at US police have killed more people in January 2015 than UK police have killed in the last century
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4kKKg TIL arsenic is used in chemotherapy to treat a type of cancer called promyelocytic leukaemia
YpRLx TIL that Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda are working towards merging into one country, the East African Federation, which would be the 10th largest country in the world.
5YgwB TIL that US law requires that eggs sold in supermarkets must be washed. And EU law requires that eggs sold in supermarkets must NOT be washed. Both do it to prevent salmonella.