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TIL about Natalie Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old lukemia patient who had her liver transplant denied by Cigna

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R7vR6 TIL Gerard Philips, founder of multinational Royal Philips now valued at 30+ billion dollars, was first cousin to Karl Marx.
9eZG TIL during the 1968 My Lai Massacre one helicopter pilot landed between the marauding American troops and innocent civilians and threatened to kill the Americans if they continued. He was later awarded America’s highest honor for bravery not directly involving combat
4VXX TIL the third leading cause of death in America is “preventable harm” - hospitals making mistakes. Only cancer and heart disease kill more.
LkR8v TIL Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster” is a remix of Edwin Birdsong’s “Cola Bottle Baby”
kOVX7 TIL that during the Centennial park bombing a cameraman died of a heart attack; that same night the band Jack and the Heart Attack were playing.