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TIL Michael Crichton graduated from Harvard Medical school but went into writing instead, writing 13 books by the time he was 33.

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5KOB TIL in 2008, when South Korea’s Health Ministry requested a lower price for a leading HIV drug made by Roche, the pharma company refused to sell it. The head of Roche’s Korea division reportedly said, “We are not in the business to save lives, but to make money. Saving lives is not our business.”
v4YL TIL Bhanbhagta Gurung saved his pinned unit from a sniper with his rifle. Gurung didn’t wait for orders and rushed to the nearest foxhole taking out the enemies with grenades, his bayonet, and Kukri; Taking 5 enemy positions single handed, against light machine guns.
JY1pk TIL that due to a mistranslation, Muslim martyrs might have 72 white raisins waiting for them in heaven instead of the expected 72 virgins
4PBw TIL That in 1995 Boris Yeltsin, the then President of Russia, when visiting DC was found drunk in his underwear trying to hail a cab to find pizza.
brDZ TIL it is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform. It takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious.