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TIL a staff writer for The New Yorker came to the office every day from 1964 to his death in 1996 – and never published a single story

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bRkZ TIL that the Hippocratic Oath calls for doctors to teach the offspring of their teachers the art of medicine, free of charge.
BrJjx TIL that Michigan is the only state with a law that explicitly prevents the poor workplace treatment of someone based on their weight.
QnKE TIL North Korea is only the second least free country in the world - it’s beaten by Eritrea, where forced, indefinite and practically unpaid “national service” has been compared to modern slavery.
VB08 TIL you cannot create a folder named “CON” in any version of Microsoft Windows.