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TIL that sloppy Medical handwriting kills more than 7,000 people every year

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KyMw TIL that in Biblical times, to swear a most sacred oath, the swearer made his oath by holding on to the oath-giver’s genitals.
jjen TIL in 1974 a newscaster committed suicide during a live broadcast. Her last words were “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in ‘blood and guts’, and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide.”
MKZW TIL members of Westboro Baptist Church have been specifically banned from entering Canada for hate speech.
kOkWm TIL Martin Luther King Jr was uncompromisingly anti-capitalist and that his speeches before being assassinated increasingly focused on the economic and social issues faced by poor Americans
ADMel TIL That there is a building in Dallas that has a elevator conference room. If you need to have a meeting you just call it up to your floor.