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TIL that doctors in the United States are no longer required to take the Hippocratic oath and many instead take an alternative oath called the "Lasagna Oath" which emphasises a holistic and compassionate approach to medicine.

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AxOl TIL scientists have been working on a mosquito-killing laser that can kill up to 100 mosquitos a second. The system can even distinguish gender and species by calculating the speed at which their wings beat.
69QlY TIL pistachios are not nuts? They look like them but they were not botanically classified as such.
jNpGR TIL the term "geek" was originally used to describe someone who was paid to bite the heads off of live chickens as a circus act.
LkBYZ TIL of the Youth International Party, a US political party in the 1960’s who’s nomination for president was a pig named Pigasus
kPn1 TIL Irena Sendlar, the “Oskar Schindler,” smuggled 2500 Jewish infants out of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2. When caught by the Nazis she had her limbs broken and was beaten. When nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize she lost to Al Gore, who made a PowerPoint slideshow on global warming.