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TIL Ryan's Rule is a medical precedent in Queensland where, if a person feels their medical concerns are not being taken seriously, they can request a re-evaluation. This rule came about after a 3 year old child died of a bacterial infection after a hospital doctor declined to perform blood tests.

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oBXPo TIL most British houses have separate hot and cold taps because of old laws to prevent contamination of the mains water supply
r0M4 TIL Tom Cruise grew up in near poverty, and he was beaten by his father, who Cruise has stated was a bully and coward.
V4N0 TIL that Paul McCartney started the recording of “Hey Jude” without knowing that Ringo was absent and sitting on the toilet. Ringo tiptoed his way back into the studio just in time for the drums to come on.
4XYag TIL: Barry Manilow's hit "I Write the Songs" was originally recorded by The Captain & Tennille and was written by a member of The Beach Boys
4XpxJ TIL of the horseshoe theory, in which the far right and the far left in fact closely resemble one another (tendency to support authoritarian governments, etc), such that the political continuum resembles a horseshoe rather than a linear line.