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TIL if you type “askew” into Google, the search page comes up askew.

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awX5y TIL: During a disaster, the least wounded patients will make it to the hospital the first, creating what is called "the reverse triage effect" where hospitals will be full of the least critical patients. To counter this hospitals may simply send severe but non-critical patients home.
yQkAp TIL Tom Cruise himself actually created the character (and the dance) for Les Grossman, suggesting "What about some greedy pig studio executive who really represents the gross part of Hollywood?” because of how much he enjoyed the script of Tropic Thunder and wanted to be in the movie.
wL6Qo TIL Rickets is called "The English Disease" in some languages, after the thick smog during the industrial revolution in England gave up to 80% of children a vitamin-D deficiency
awlwA TIL After the Scarecrow gets his diploma in The Wizard of Oz, he recites the Pythagorean theorem incorrectly.
VBMWD TIL in 2019 one of Russia’s troll farms was evicted by the building owners after repeated bomb threats.