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LkGvr TIL-Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance-He was most famous for his mapmaking expeditions to the Amazon, a place he called the last great blank space in the world. In 1925, at 57 years old he led his last expedition in the Amazon to find the Lost City of Z and was never heard from again.
D14kV TIL that Haiti has an estimated 300 000 child slaves who face daily beating and that Haiti is second in slavery to Mauritania
OGWX TIL that if medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America
e0bYL TIL of Compassion fatigue. It's characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others, often described as the negative cost of caring
ABal TIL Monty Python’s movie, The Life of Brian, was funded solely by George Harrison of The Beatles after EMI backed out due to the subject matter.