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TIL that medical students disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds

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5Wwn TIL two Frenchmen dueled each other from hot air balloons after discovering they “shared, rather too closely, a mutual acquaintance.” When a height of roughly 900 yards was achieved, the two fired shots. The first one to fire missed and was, in turn, sent to his death in a matter of seconds.
rR56e TIL that David Zucker (writer of the film Airplane!) named his racehorse All Pink to mess with the commentators. Zucker specifically instructed the jockey riding All Pink to hug the inside of the track so the commentator would have to keep saying the phrase “It’s all pink on the inside!”.
Bnmy TIL Weird Al’s first hit “My Bologna” was recorded in a men’s room across the hall from his college radio station.
P1abV TIL that dire wolves lived 9,500 years ago and were the size of large modern gray wolves, but with larger teeth and stronger biting ability. Their extinction is believed to have been caused by their reliance on megaherbivores as prey, climatic change, and competition from other species.
1pRP TIL cockroach brains contain antibiotics that can kill 90% of MRSAs