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TIL Cardiologists do unnecessary heart surgery for profit, sometimes surgically operating on the patient the first time they meet them through hardball sales tactics

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nenxB TIL Obscurantism is the practice of deliberately presenting information in an imprecise and recondite manner, often designed to forestall further inquiry and understanding.
mM8O TIL in 2008, 9-year-old Nathan Thomson was stabbed in the face as he fought an armed intruder who tried to kill his mother, who was stabbed 8 times. After saving his mother from the slasher, he has been recommended for a bravery award by one of Scotland’s senior law officers for his heroic act.
4pZ6 TIL that in ancient Sparta, men were only given the honour of a gravestone if they died in battle, and women were only given it if they died in childbirth.
KlQB TIL despite his notoriously foul mouth, Eminem doesn’t say the “n-word.” He hasn’t used the slur in a rap song since two decades ago (when he was nearly unknown).
w5o1 TIL when asked about his relatively low-profile film career after winning the Oscar with ‘Amadeus’, F. Murray Abraham (Salieri) said, “Even though I won the Oscar, I can still take the subway in New York, and nobody recognizes me. Some actors might find that disconcerting, but I find it refreshing.”