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TIL that nearly 90 percent of patients who had ‘penicillin allergy’ listed on their medical charts were found to actually have no such allergy at all.

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d0GE TIL the world’s first batch of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was made by Ben & Jerry’s, inspired by an anonymous note left on their flavor suggestion board.
EgGYV TIL that most hotel rooms in the USA do not have ceiling lights. This is done mostly for cost reasons. Money is saved by not having to run wire to a ceiling box, drywall around it and then install the overhead light itself.
78WwM TIL: Vanilla sky was the only movie to get permission to shut down Times Square for any amount of time
oOp7 TIL a German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
m1wJR TIL in 2021, a single deli shop in New Jersey that was publicly traded managed to achieve a market capitalization of over $100 million despite doing only $35,000 in sales across two years. The deli's largest shareholder was the wrestling coach of the high school next door.