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TIL that an Iraqi doctor with insurgent ties killed 43 military patients during the Iraq War by “treating” their bleeding with anticoagulants.

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OGQyL TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic got his LASIK surgery (to fix his vision so wouldn't need glasses anymore) done on live television. It was captured by KTLA 5 (in the Los Angeles area) in 1998.
e0ov5 TIL the card game wasn't originally the main focus of the manga Yu-Gi-Oh, it started as one plot device among others in an action shonen about tabletop gaming in general. This changed after it garnered enormous interest among readers
6Z8W TIL Mordor is an actual place, a red spot on one of Pluto’s moons.
QJ9vk TIL that Bob Barker, who hosted "The Price is Right," trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn't sent to the fleet in time to fight. He once said: "I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II."
Wka7o TIL the caribou/reindeer is now essentially extinct in the lower 48 US states