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TIL that patients in US treated by foreign doctors are less likely to die than those treated by their American-trained colleagues.

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e0JNb TIL the Levi Straus was not the inventor of Denim jeans but partnered with Jacob Davis after Davis approached him to fund the patent. Jacob Davis devised the riveting of the pants independent of Straus and also came up with the double orange threaded stitch design.
lWoG TIL that the hoatzin is the last surviving species of a line of birds that diverged from all other birds 64 million years ago, just after the dinosaur extinction event, and that hoatzin chicks have claws on their wings
XEPR8 TIL the boarding house in DC where the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln originated is now a sushi and karaoke bar.
gMWb8 TIL that, during season 4 of The Sopranos, James Gandolfini gave 16 of his co-stars $33,000 each, saying ‘‘Thanks for sticking by me.’’
4kRK6 TIL during five periods since 1990, Delaware has been the only U.S. state without any scheduled commercial airline flights. The periods were 1993 through 1998, 2000 to 2006, April 2008 to June 30, 2013, April 2015 and February 2021, and most recently from June 2022 to January 2023.