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TIL John McCain put forward a bill (later overturned by Citizen’s United) that planned to take money out of politics

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9lpD TIL that British Rail once held up a train for 20 minutes so that a distraught man could get to his mother in hospital before she died.
OGgOX TIL that the country with the most doctors per capita is Cuba (8.4 doctors per 1,000 people)
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