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TIL the Dutch built a nursing home for Alzheimers patients that pretends as a village, complete with shops, restaurants, movie theaters, all staffed by personnel trained to care for dementia patients.

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rY8d TIL Chris Tucker is broke and owes the IRS 11.5 million dollars. He also refuses to appear in the last “Friday” movie.
6EJKW TIL that the lookout who first spotted the iceberg that sank the Titanic survived the sinking and went on to serve in the merchant navy in WWI and WWII. Shortly after Christmas in 1964, at the age of 77, his wife died, he was evicted from his house and he hanged himself.
4XWXg TIL that the first documented same-sex marriage in the Philippines is between two guerrilla fighters Ka Jose and Ka Andres, members of New People's Army, a communist organization.
69B78 TIL that the precursor to LASIK, Radial Keratotomy, where operations to correct vision would be done “manually with a blade”, often led to many issues, such as vision loss and infection because the incision remains open indefinitely. "It is well documented that RK incisions never completely heal..."
YpBx TIL that at the time of the American Revolution, American colonists had the highest standard of living in the world.