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TIL in September 2012, 88 year-old Ilda Vitor Maciel was killed in a Rio de Janeiro clinic after nurses injected her IV with soup; a month later, 80 year-old Palmerina Pires Ribeiro was killed in Rio de Janeiro when a nurse injected her IV with coffee. The cases are unrelated.

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jN4ZX TIL During the Korean War, English-born John Koelsch was the first helicopter pilot awarded the Medal of Honor (posthumously) for volunteering to rescue a downed Marine without a fighter escort. He, his crew, and the pilot were all captured, yet Koelsch never broke despite dying in captivity.
dWXE TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once got so wasted before a meeting with the German head of CBS Europe, he left thinking he had ‘lightened the mood’ with a striptease. In reality, he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in, then urinating in, the director’s wine.
p8BbQ TIL an obscure Chinese company has become the top smartphone seller in Africa, largely because they adjusted their phones to work with darker skin tones.
v115D TIL that within about 600 million years, faster weathering of rocks by an increasingly brighter sun will reduce atmospheric CO2 levels below the threshold required for trees to survive, and all of earth's forests will die.
6lEw TIL Brain scans show compulsive gamers have hyperconnected neural networks. One researcher said: “Hyperconnectivity between these brain networks could lead to a more robust ability to direct attention toward targets, and to recognize novel information in the environment.”