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TIL People are longing for true friends

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pMmG TIL that in 2010 US crime rates were at their lowest in the past 40 years
yQERw TIL that Vietnam War medics formed the core of early EMS. Their training and experience were needed, as many first responders in the 60s were undertrained funeral home workers. So, those wounded in combat actually had a better chance of survival than those getting into car accidents in the US.
Pd5E TIL calling yourself “doctor” if you don’t hold a PhD earned in Germany is a criminal offence
jNDGE TIL although Wayne’s World (1992) was released after Freddie Mercury died, he got to see the car headbanging scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody shortly before he passed away on November 24, 1991. He loved it and foresaw how the use of the song would ignite a comeback for Queen in the United States.
rpV1 TIL that the highest grossing piece of entertainment of any kind, ever, with a gross of 5.6 billion dollars, is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera”