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TIL 40% of white medical trainees believed black people having thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings in a 2016 survey

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AZal TIL that on June 28, 2009 Stephen Hawking threw a party for time-travelers. He announced the party the day after it happened, and according to Hawking, no one came.
jg0v TIL Genghis Khan once ordered his starving army to eat every tenth man.
DAoJ TIL that all of the many self-portraits that Van Gogh is famous for were painted in a span of just 3 years.
woArE TIL In 1952, the Pakistani army and Pakistani navy communicated a military signal titled “File 1971” that predicted the separation of East Pakistan. Not only did the file predict East Pakistan’s separation but the title coincidentally contains the year in which the separation actually happened
gMjb9 TIL that Late last year, the Army launched an accelerated effort into training and equipping 26 of its 31 active combat brigades to fight in large-scale subterranean facilities that exist beneath dense urban areas around the world.