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TIL that surgeons who play video games for at least 3 hours a week make 37% fewer errors and are 27% more efficient in their procedures.

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yQb8a TIL in 1956 an F-11 test pilot inexperienced with the consequences of supersonic flight, literally ran into his own gunfire and shot himself down
vMMD TIL the Supreme Court ruled that Social Security is Not Yours despite your years of paying into it, that workers have no legally binding contractual rights to their Social Security benefits, and that those benefits can be cut or even eliminated at any time.
16Rjd TIL that London's M25 motorway loop is broken at the River Thames, where it becomes the less restricted A282 in order to allow non-motorway traffic to use the Dartford Crossing
ANkPn TIL A Ship owned by JP Morgan Chase seized in $1.3 billion cocaine in 2019.
AD0a4 TIL that Dr. Thomas Midgely, inventor of both leaded-gasoline and chlorofluorocarbon with the best of intentions, devised an ingenious system of pulleys and strings to pull his polio-stricken body out of bed, which tangled around his neck, and killed him.