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TIL some industries in the USA have mandatory retirement ages. Some include pilots in the airline industry at age 65(up from age 60), National Park Rangers at age 57, and Oregon Judges at age 75.

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waQM TIL Abolitionist Cassius Clay was shot during an 1843 debate for the Kentucky House of Representatives; then, “Despite being shot in the chest, Clay drew his Bowie knife, tackled Brown, cut-out his eyes, and finally threw him over an embankment.” He would later become US Ambassador to Russia.
JB0j TIL that Gerard Butler was the president of his law school society, had a job as a trainee lawyer at a Scottish law firm, but was fired one week before becoming a lawyer for partying too hard. He then moved to London to work on becoming famous.
4XXdo TIL in 2007, a 73-year-old man underwent surgery and suffered "anesthesia awareness" -- a condition where the patient is conscious and feels pain but is paralyzed and cannot alert the surgeon. The man's resulting PTSD led him to suicide, prompting a lawsuit against the anesthesiologists.
BY0K TIL of Annie Dookhan, a chemist in a drug testing lab who tampered with 40,000+ samples resulting in thousands of innocent people being put in prison
dDe9j TIL of the Ghost Dance War, the name given to a violent U.S. Army reprisal to Lakota participation in the pan-native cult of the Ghost Dance. Fearing a renewed Indian War, the Army crackdown led to the murder of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee