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TIL a nurse placed playing cards in obvious places on top of operating room cabinets at a hospital to test for out of body or near death experiences. Not one person ever reported seeing the playing cards or even knowing they were there.

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X0ZyP TIL that after Salvador Dali expressed support for Spanish dictator Franco's regime, Pablo Picasso refused to mention Dali's name or acknowledge his existence for the rest of his life
X4ar TIL that the first canadian Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, appeared so drunk during a debate that he threw up, he then said “I get sick sometimes not because of drink or any other cause, except that I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honourable opponent.”
XEbN6 TIL Mosquito's love type O blood
J1jgl TIL: There are over 600 wallabies living wild on the Isle of Man after a small group originally escaped from a wildlife park in the 1960s
Rdb8 TIL: In January 2012, 150 employees of Foxconn, Taiwanese technology company and contract manufacturer for products including the iPhone, iPad and Playstation 4, threatened to commit mass suicide in protest of their working conditions