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TIL That some US States allow non-consensual pelvic and rectal exams by medical students on patients under anesthesia

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m1YPY TIL that during the filming of 'Titanic' someone slipped PCP into a bowl of catered clam chowder causing dozens of crew members to behave erratically and experience hallucinations. James Cameron narrowly avoided hospitalization by making himself throw up in time.
gQXX TIL that cockroaches’ exoskeletons allow them to withstand weights up to 900 times their body weight
8ereZ TIL that for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world’s Christians lived under Muslim rule
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