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TIL when during a routine appointment, Doctors suggested that jazz legend Miles Davis have a tube implanted to relieve his breathing, Davis was so outraged that he gave himself an intracerebral hemorrhage, which put him in a coma which he never came out of. Life support was turned off and he died.

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jLVv TIL in 1937 Hitler told a British official that the British should “shoot Gandhi, and if this doesn’t suffice to reduce them to submission, shoot a dozen leading members of the Congress, and if that doesn’t suffice shoot 200, and so on, as you make it clear that you mean business.”
8aV7V TIL about the high levels of PTSD in low-income, urban neighborhoods in the United States. A sample of 1900 patients in Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital found that 87.8% of the sample suffered at least one-lifetime traumatic event, and the lifetime prevalence of PTSD was 46.2%.
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