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TIL that the most common last name among American physicians is no longer "Smith", it's "Patel".

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MPrW TIL that flexibility is not about muscle elasticity, but about training your nervous system that further muscle stretching is safe, so it won’t fire pain signals to the brain. We can all do a split under anesthesia
vVxR TIL 130lbs of dioxin were dumped on Vietnam during the Vietnam war. (3oz in New York’s water supply would be enough to wipe out its entire population.)
bEaQ TIL that the word “Lisztomania” was used to describe the behavior of the fans of pianist Franz Liszt who would go into a craze while watching him perform
b6D50 TIL that some countries use burial vaults to protect against graves sinking, also known as grave subsidence.
yQdll TIL that the Krypteia, a super secretive special unit in ancient Sparta, was the unit given the dubious task of controling their slave population by annual massacres. Even more messed up: they had to do the killings in secrecy and was punished by whipping if anyone caught them.