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TIL that 47% of people in prison (USA) are dyslexic. General population estimates are around 20%. Link to PDF study

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ZpedD TIL that in 2012, a group of British students edited the Wikpedia article about electric toasters and inserted the false claim that a man named Alan MacMasters invented the toaster in 1893. The fake article was cited by newspapers and other organizations until the hoax was exposed in July 2022.
pY6WG TIL in 1965 part of the training to be Special Forces Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab at Fort Bragg where they had to shoot a Dog (The Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then successfully treat the wound
D1ZRg TIL: A group of participants received a mug and were told they owned it; a second group was only shown the mug. When asked how much they would be willing to sell the mugs for, their asking price was more than twice of the second group. The “endowment effect“; we overvalue what we feel we own.
4Xy76 TIL the coffee table from 'Parasite' was specifically designed so that 3 adults could hide under it
ADgvn TIL that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US after cardiac and respiratory illness.