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TIL “Killing Season” is a British medical term used to describe the time around August, when the newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service.

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kOaQg TIL about 'Final Girl', a trope common in horror films in which several victims are killed one-by-one by a killer amid increasing terror, culminating in a climax in which the last surviving member of the group, usually female, either vanquishes the killer or escapes.
neLlW TIL trader Andrew Myrick was found dead with grass stuffed in his mouth and buttocks after refusing to sell food to Dakota people.
Wk1Z4 TIL while recording “I’m Coming Out,” Diana Ross had no idea “coming out” meant one revealing they’re gay. When Ross found out, she went back to the recording studio in tears, thinking songwriter Nile Rodgers tried to ruin her career.
nWXxo TIL the BIPM doesn't use a physical rod that's exactly 1 metre similar to the physical "Kilogram" specimen, instead use concise measurement of light & time defined in 1984 by the CGPM as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 secs with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock.
R5VW9 TIL tourists often cry when they sit on the coffee shop couch from Friends during guided tours of Warner Bros. Studios.