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TIL About Vulnerable Narcissism. An introverted form of Narcissists who are hypersensitive to criticism and are likely to withdraw from socializing when criticized

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Q7rL TIL that Medicare fully covers dialysis (~80k/yr) and kidney transplants (~263k) but only covers three years of immunosuppressive drugs (~18k/yr). This creates a cycle in which patients can’t afford their medicine, the kidney fails, and the patient is put on dialysis - in need of another transplant.
wLmJE TIL "The China Syndrome", a 1979 movie about a nuclear power plant disaster, was dismissed by the nuclear power industry as being "sheer fiction". Twelve days after the film was released, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station experienced a partial meltdown.
a7wZ TIL: Drinking helps stave off Radioactive Poisoning. The survivors of Chernobyl were drunk at the time.
X0e86 TIL that romantic kissing was only invented 3500 years ago, and its invention has been linked to the rapid spread of oral herpes.
4eWo TIL that in “The Shining” director Stanley Kubrick was able to film all of Danny Lloyd’s scenes without the six-year-old actor realizing he was in a horror movie.