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TIL that NFL QB Drew Bledsoe sheared a blood vessel from a hit. He most likely would have died but a team doctor caught it before he went home. The case is now taught to med students as a reason to not “jump to conclusions”. Bledsoe was replaced by a young QB named Tom Brady, his first game.

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p89pZ TIL Augustus Caesar is estimated at having a net worth of $4.6 trillion because he “personally owned all of Egypt”
OGmvg TIL the energy necessary for the production of oil liquids (including direct and indirect energy costs) is 15.5% of the energy production. To turn 100 barrels of oil into gasoline at your local pump, the energy of 15½ barrels from the previous 100 has to be used.
QJpRe TIL that consuming too much lean protein can cause symptoms similar to broad malnutrition in a condition known as protein poisoning, or more colloquially called "rabbit poisoning" due to the first observed cases in frontiersmen who ate nothing but wild rabbits over the winter and developed symptoms.
vZbr TIL the US representative of the WHO had a publication discontinued after it said that cocaine used occasionally does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems because it failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches.
PYJVE TIL parrots kept as pets will go through severe emotional trauma when they're given away, sold, or abandoned, developing destructive behaviors like screaming, aggression and self mutilation, plucking out their feathers In the wild they are extremely social and often mate for life (60-80 years.)