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TIL Babe Ruth was one of the first cancer patients to receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment simultaneously

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R74Q9 Today I learned 83% of Psychiatry Providers listed as In-Network with an Insurance Company, either don't exist or aren't accepting new patients, a term described as "Ghost Networks"
pYrGA TIL wasps can be trained to detect bombs.
P1lnw TIL that National Football League(NFL) player Jacob Sykes took college courses in sixth grade and assisted in teaching college courses at Langston University in seventh grade.
67EW TIL Richard Berry, the writer of Louie Louie, was living on welfare at his mom’s house in the mid 80s. A company wanted to use the song in a commercial and sent a lawyer to him. The lawyer suggested Berry attempt to gain rights to his song, resulting in a settlement and making Berry a millionaire.
WG4d TIL after working on the US bid for the 1986 World Cup, Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying “The politics of FIFA, they make me nostalgic for the Middle East”.