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TIL 40% of patients subject to medical malpractice reported that if they had received an explanation and apology, they would not have felt the need to file suit

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xVOJ1 TIL how the marathon got its name. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled (meaning it's a myth) run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, who reported the victory and died from exhaustion later on.
8nmL TIL: January is named after Janus, the Roman God of two faces, one that looks back to the past and the other that looks forward to the future
YpEdW TIL about the Gaet'ale Pond, a hypersaline lake in the Afar Region of Ethopia, which, according to locals, was created in January 2005 after an earthquake reactivated a thermal spring, thus creating the pond.
KYM7Q TIL Between 1921 and 1932 three Japanese Prime Ministers were assassinated by Rightwing members of Japanese society
Oor8g TIL that in addition to ending WW1, the Treaty of Versailles also made it so that Bayer could no longer trademark "heroin".