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TIL that medical students disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds

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R75r8 Being wary of Friday the 13th is much more than a quaint superstition observed by a few uneducated people in distant, unreachable towns and hamlets. In the United States alone, it is estimated that between 17 and 21 million people dread that date to the extent that it can be officially classified as a phobia.
W7kZY TIL The inventor and theorist Buckminster Fuller was expelled from Harvard twice. The first time for spending all his money partying with a vaudeville troupe and the second time for his "irresponsibility and lack of interest".
WM6L TIL Google owns domains to cover mistypes such as: Gooogle, Gogle, Googel, and even 466453.
XAr8 TIL - In 1964 the German government decided to back pay East African soliders (The Askari) who fought for them in WWI. Most had little proof of service, so they had to perform the Manual of arms in German and with a broom to prove themselves. Not a single one of them failed.
7r9OX TIL that the only place on Earth where both crocodiles and alligators live together is in the United States, in the Florida Everglades.