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TIL that laparoscopic surgeons who played video games performed faster and better compared to their non-gaming counterparts.

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Owy1 TIL that an ’&’ between two writers for a movie (e.g. “Quentin Tarantino & Woody Allen”) means the writers worked together on the script as a team, while an ‘and’ (“Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen”) means they worked on the same script independently.
8aZBV TIL at an Alabamian church in 1902 someone yelled "there's a fight!" The congregation instead heard the word "fire" and began to attempt to escape. In the ensuing stampede 115 people were killed.
nWyM9 TIL Leonhard Euler wrote some papers on music theory. However, these papers were considered “too mathematical for musicians and too musical for mathematicians.”
94Qr TIL NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used to run a female beauty pageant, the winner of which was crowned ‘Miss Guided Missile’
MEL8 TIL that in 2002, a high school student ‘inspired by 9/11’ flew a stolen Cessna plane into the Bank of America building. He was the only casualty.