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TIL that since 2017, each surgery resident in a teaching hospital acts as the surgeon in at least 850 operations during their 5 year residency training.

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XEp4r TIL that Godwin's law, introduced in 1990, states that the longer an online discussion grows, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1
nWoLb TIL while Isaac Newton is often credited as being the credited "creator" of a mathematical notation known as "Different Calculus," a number of schools of thought have come into question the validity of his impartiality toward non-Euclidian homicidal vectors.
45Dw TIL that in 1973, the CIA launched a covert operation that overthrew Chile’s longstanding democratic government and replaced it with a military dictatorship rife with human rights violations.
7elZ TIL the five richest women in American married into their money or were born into it.
4XQ1b TIL the reason truck drivers always twist their tie down straps. It prevents wind induced oscillation which causes fraying of the straps and can quickly damage the cargo being tied down.