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TIL: In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed an unfunded mandate (EMTAL Act) that requires emergency treatment for everyone, lack of health insurance notwithstanding, including undocumented immigrants.

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A1Od TIL that Tuvalu could finally afford the $100,000 it cost to join the United Nations after it received its first quarterly $1 million payment for leasing out the valuable .tv internet domain.
VMGLk TIL that Porkins (Star Wars Ep IV) and Major Eaton (Raiders of the Lost Ark) were played by the same actor (William Hootkins). Major Eaton was one of the officers who sent Indy on his adventure and at the end of the movie revealed "Top Men" before the warehouse scene.
jNABR TIL that in 1981, Disneyland was sued by the family of a nine-year-old girl, claiming that a performer in a Winnie the Pooh suit had hit her in the face, causing brain damage. The performer defended himself in court by wearing the costume and demonstrating that he was unable to hit anyone.
LQ6Gm TIL that the avian magnetic compass of the European Robin has been extensively researched and uses vision-based magnetoreception, in which the Robin's ability to sense the magnetic field of the earth for navigation is affected by the light entering the bird's eye.
AZRo TIL Medal of Honor recipient Roy Benavidez was shot 7 times, had 28 shrapnel holes in him, was clubbed by a rifle, slashed by a bayonet twice before he left the battlefield. When mistakenly identified as dead, he spit blood in the medic’s face