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TIL that in the days after hurricane Katrina, doctors at Memorial Hospital NOLA, began to euthanize patients that were deemed too sick to save.

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YpY6B TIL that Anne Whitney, an American sculptor, won the blind contest to create a statue of Charles Sumner in Boston Public Garden in 1875. When they found out that she was a woman they declared it "inappropriate" for her to have sculpted a man and gave the commission to Thomas Ball instead.
WkDn4 [TIL] there is no federal minimum drinking age law. It doesn't have that authority. An act signed by Reagan, however, supersedes states' rights by punishing any state who ignores this by reducing federal highway apportionment by 10% in an effort to reduce drunk driving.
nWDld TIL Portugal fought a 13-year Colonial War to keep its African colonies long after the rest of Europe had given up theirs. Eventually the military got sick of dying in a pointless war, overthrew the dictatorship and installed a democracy
gwPL TIL There was a real team of Jewish assassins called “The Avengers" who tracked down and executed Nazi war criminals after WWII.
EgYBV TIL Sully, the pilot who landed the plane in the Hudson notified a library about losing the book he borrowed from them about professional ethics after it sank with the plane.