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TIL 91% of homicide cases in Baltimore are criminal on criminal

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BrOrL TIL That Harrison Ford has had 4 separate incidents while in control of various aircraft. One Crash Landing, one emergency landing, and two near misses while both landing and taxiing.
Wk5jo TIL ex-England football star Paul Gascoigne tried to help save the fugitive murderer Raoul Moat by seeking him out in his dressing gown, with a fishing rod and a cooked chicken.
e0VeJ TIL that wisdom tooth extraction is a $3 billion per year industry in the USA. As many as 70% of wisdom teeth extractions are unnecessary, and that stopping these unnecessary extractions would reduce the average yearly income of an American dentist by as much as 40%.
JYwkm TIL of Black Wednesday, the first Wednesday of every August when the new cohort of junior doctors begin working in the NHS after graduating medical school, where patients are about 6% more likely to die than on other days