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TIL that a study performed by the University of Texas has concluded that when surgeons listen to their preferred music, their stitches are better and faster

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bJOQ TIL Saturday Night Live was created because in 1974 Johnny Carson petitioned NBC for more time off.
0d4L1 TIL About Montgomery Meigs, Quartermaster General of the Army: He was one of the principal architects of Arlington National Cemetery; the choice of its location, on Robert E. Lee's family estate, Arlington House, was partly designed as a gesture to humiliate Lee for siding with the Confederacy.
RJr9 TIL that close to 50 million people died at the hands of Japanese aggression between 1931 and 1945 in the Asian Holocaust during the Asia Pacific War
d8WV8 TIL that 70% isopropyl alcohol is more effective at killing bacteria than 91% alcohol. This is because the water in the solution helps it permeate more fully.
D1JKP TIL about 'Out 1', a French film nearly 13 hours long, with a 'short' version itself being 4 hours long. It was also shot at a framerate 1fps faster than cinemas at the time could playback, which made the film 30 minutes longer. Some critics pen this as one of the greatest films ever made.