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TIL: The US Navy sends medics to the high-volume emergency rooms of LA and Chicago to prep them to be deployed.

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vxx TIL That Keanu Reeves deferred his salary for The Devil’s Advocate to ensure the budget could afford Al Pacino for his role in the movie. He did it again for The Replacements to get Gene Hackman.
oRNao TIL On Shrove Tuesday 1229 some University of Paris students got into fight over a bar tab and attacked a tavern. The students had benefit of clergy but the city guard killed some of them. The students responded with strike for two years until the school was given independence from local authority.
7rLkM TIL when Tom Hanks was touring the White House, he learned that the press corps didn't have a coffee pot so he donated one then, and again in '10 and '17. "Keep up the good fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Especially for the truth part" is the message that accompanied the '17 machine.
x61Go TIL roly polies are capable of removing toxic metal ions from soil by taking in heavy metals such as copper, zinc, lead and cadmium which they crystallize into spherical deposits in the midgut
76KZ TIL that over a dozen employees charged with caring for “Koko” the gorilla have reported that she is not adequately cared for and suffers significant neglect