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TIL Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States

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jNj0v TIL that the American Indian tribes removed to Oklahoma in the "Trail of Tears" were considered "civilized" and had adopted "Christianity, centralized governments, literacy, market participation, written constitutions, intermarriage with white Americans, and plantation slavery practices"
AD0Ew TIL The reason you can’t find canned broccoli, unlike most other vegetables, is because broccoli disintegrates into a pulp when cooked for periods of time above 200°F, and water boils at 212°F. The canning process cooks food once before and once after its canned. Broccoli would turn to mush.
98MG TIL Tony Danza was Tupac’s Prison Pen Pal.
N7GA6 TIL the Saudi blockade of Yemen has caused 70% of Yemen's population to starve. Over 50k children died of starvation in 2017 alone.
j6GxM TIL about the Great British Dog and Cat Massacre of 1939. In which Londoners, to prepare for war with Nazi Germany, voluntarily killed over 400,000 of their home pets in a one month period so as to ease the strain on resources. The deaths were found to be mostly unnecessary.