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TIL of the Goldwater Rule, a rule that prohibits psychiatrists from giving professional opinions about public figures whom they have not examined in person

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pbQ8 TIL in 1846, John Torrington perished during an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When his corpse was exhumed 138 years later, it was almost perfectly preserved – eyes wide open, clothing intact, and limbs so flexible that moving him felt like moving someone unconscious rather than dead.
4PYw TIL - There are only two countries in the world where drug companies are permitted to advertise to the public: New Zealand and USA.
dDXRr TIL: The only king in a pack of cards without a moustache is the King of Hearts, who lost his thanks to a faulty 'reproduction of the original design'
gb89 TIL The production of Tabasco Sauce is a gruelling 3 year process that begins with the company President hand picking the perfect plants for seed extraction
kEPE TIL a computer tech forgot to install some new code in a server. This resulted in a high speed stock trading company that did $21 billion in daily trades to go bankrupt in 45 minutes