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TIL Some states allow unauthorized pelvic exams on patients in teaching hospitals

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ekwL TIL In 2000 Sony invented a movie critic by the name of David Manning and used his fictional quotes to promote movies. Sony ended up paying over $1.5m to moviegoers in a class action lawsuit and over $300,000 to the state of Connecticut where Manning supposedly worked at a small weekly paper.
G7l1 TIL 1 in every 100 american adults are in prison, and that the U.S has more people in prison than China.
8aL7G TIL: That upwards of 50% of all accidental deaths in the Tudor period were drownings
grB5L TIL Michael J. Fox was not the first actor cast as Marty McFly. That honor went to Eric Stoltz, but only a few weeks into filming, director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale fired Stoltz, and replace him with Fox.
YogB TIL in a remote valley in Sweden, people still speak an ancient dialect of Old Norse, the language of the Vikings. It’s called Elfdalian and they still used runes up until the 1900s.