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TIL A 2013 study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine revealed that 69% of doctors reported that they abused prescription medicine “to relieve stress & physical or emotional pain." Rates of addiction are highest within the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and psychiatry.

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rRNGM Frozen in time, Franz Josef Land is one of the last lingering remnants of the truly wild Arctic. The remote and nearly uninhabited 192-island archipelago is renowned for its biodiversity, which includes polar bears, walruses, bowhead whales, belugas, and narwhals. The intensifying impact of climate change, however, nearly turned this serene environment deadly for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and his crew.
e0ylD TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.
grwrL TIL that the sheath of the vas deferens acts as a splint to facilitate and promote the vas deferens's recanalization even when as much as 5 cm, or 2 in, of the vas deferens has been removed, assuming that the sheath of the vas deferens itself remains intact and has not been removed as well.
ADljn TIL Australian Public Service leaders implemented a "blind recruitment" experiment removing all indications of gender and ethnic background on applications in order to increase diversity in the work place. It had the opposite effect, causing less women and minorities to be hired.
NXgLe TIL that Michael Jackson's Thriller album was the best-selling album in the U.S. for 2 years straight, sold 32 million copies worldwide by 1983, and was certified 34x Platinum by the RIAA in 2021, making it one of only two albums to ever get more than 3x Diamond certified.