Post * ZwRY — Curious Curator

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TIL In a 2010 interview, IBM’s CEO said: “We could have improved quality and reduced the costs of the health-care system by $900 billion. … I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down.”

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Z88Gp TIL: In the early days of the People's Republic of China, families of executed prisoners were charged a "Bullet Fee" when claiming their relatives corpse

4QOw TIL Hong Kong has the highest intelligence of any country/territory on earth with an average IQ of 107, followed by South Korea and Japan. The USA doesn’t break the top 10.

8ayma TIL: humans have developed injections containing nanoparticles which when administered into the eye convert infrared into visible light giving night vision for up to 10 weeks

LQLYZ TIL a 2022 California Supreme Court decision allowed bumble bees to be considered a protected species because they met the state’s legal definition of a “fish”.

4AR TIL that under the qui tam provisions of the false claims act, you can file lawsuits on behalf of the federal government for medicare fraud and you get to keep 15-30% of the final settlement.