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TIL: The US leads in Medical Errors, making our costly health less safe than other ‘free’ systems.

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69Nd8 TIL A ferry pilot flew a Cessna 172 from California to Hawaii in just over 18 hours. Prepping and flying the plane was about the same cost as having the plane disassembled, shipped and re-assembled.
OG7dY TIL that Dodge Ram, Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge are owned by a company in the Netherlands
OGGXY TIL that milk is sprayed on vineyards to prevent grapes from becoming mildewed.
GYOxG TIL that Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women," never actually wanted to write the book. She thought of the genre as "moral pap for the young," and only decided to write this novel in order to help her father.
7WYZ TIL the Nazis developed experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) without resting before they collapsed.