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TIL of Dialysis at Sea Cruises: A cruise specially for kidney failure patients and their family who require regular hemodialysis to survive.

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GYKL4 TIL that the United States has a strategic stockpile of mechanical ventilators, for deployment in a national health emergency
4N7b TIL Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers hated the film Adaption of her book so much, she spent most of the premiere crying and refused to let Disney touch the rest of the series.
Rw86 TIL The combined surface area of the Great Lakes is roughly equal to the size of the United Kingdom, and the lakes contain approximately 35,000 islands.
b1LQ TIL Japan’s justice system largely depends on confessions for convictions. Combined with the expectations (high conviction rate) and that a prosecutor’s career is often over with a non-guilty verdict, methods are often used to get false confessions out of the accused.
pNaQ TIL that when the Nazis closed down the Polish universities and executed professors, surviving academics set up illegal ‘underground universities.’ One of those educated by an underground university was future Pope John Paul II