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TIL doctors' illegible handwriting kills more than 7,000 people a year.

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N71MQ TIL Boris Mikhailov, captain of the USSR hockey team, was offered a $1 million contract to leave Russia in 1980 after the Miracle on Ice. However, he declined as the KGB was standing next to him when the offer was made.
OmNL TIL that in Cuba a person can get more jail time for killing a cow (10 years in prison) than killing a human and that eaters of illegal beef can get three months to one year in prison
e0kn6 TIL The original reason no photography was allowed in the Sistine Chapel is because Nippon TV of Japan obtained exclusive photographic, film and television rights in exchange for funding the chapels restoration project (3 million). The rights expired in 1997 but the ban is still upheld today.
J1Wa1 TIL that the Food and Drug Administration has a Most Wanted list that focuses on criminal activities related to FDA-regulated products, mostly prescription drugs and medical products. It includes a guy who imported counterfeit Colgate toothpaste
6EgD7 TIL there is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.