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TIL more than 60 percent of bankruptcies are the result of medical bills. In people’s time of greatest need, our medical system burdens them with debt.

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0krp TIL during the Holocaust one Jewish woman exposed between 600 and 3000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to prevent her family from being sent to a concentration camp. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945
9bAr TIL that dogs can eat raw bones and digest them, and they only choke on cooked bones which can splinter and break.
J1YOm TIL that it’s illegal to own more than 6 dildos (or artificial vaginas) in the state of Texas.
WRGX TIL that a computer scientist created a program that would teach itself how to beat old NES games. The AI worked out that the only way to beat Tetris was to pause the game just before losing and never resume it.
nWkvb TIL of Jonathan Wild. He was a underworld figure notable for operating on both sides of the law, posing as a vigilante entitled the Thief-Taker General. He simultaneously ran a significant criminal empire, and used his crimefighting role to remove rivals and launder the proceeds of his own crimes.