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TIL Ditching of social care plan is a tragedy - Dilnot

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1a7YX TIL "All Quiet on the Western Front" was banned in Poland for being pro-German and in Germany for being anti-German.
N7oYJ TIL that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine. He opposed executions and when he was unable to have them abolished, he suggested "decapitation by means of a simple mechanism." as the most humane method. When the device was finally invented, it was given his name.
GA9pg TIL: In 2020, a study was performed by asking pedestrians to cross a street hundreds of times and found that the likelihood of a car slowing down decreases by 3% for every $1000 in car value. The study followed up a Finnish study which concluded Audi, BMW, and Mercedes drivers were unempathetic.
Y7YYZ TIL that the Kara 4 Kids jingle was created 2 decades ago in 2004 and the commercial was only created 1 decade ago in 2014
KOQgJ TIL that Retta, the actress who played Donna Meagle on Parks and Recreation, graduated from Duke University, worked as a chemist before doing stand-up and moving to LA, and is also the niece of former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.