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TIL The F-15 Fighter Jet Was Capable of Shooting Down Satellites in Orbit.

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YdZv TIL Doctors from teaching hospitals around the world regularly hold Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (or simply M&Ms), where they can candidly discuss unexpected patient deaths. The discussions are confidential and legally protected, and help improves patient mortality rates.
v1yMr Jerk drivers who merge at the last minute are actually more efficient. However, they are still jerks.
neEgb TIL that Kentucky has 2 million more barrels of bourbon aging than total population.
pYO1b TIL of the English sweating sickness, a mysterious disease which struck England and Europe in a series of brief epidemics in the 15th and 16th centuries. The onset of symptoms till the time of either death or recovery was 24 hours or less.
Eggmx TIL about cold reading, a technique used by mediums and psychics in which the reader, through strategic questioning, gets the subject to reveal information, and through clever psychology convinces them the information actually came from the reader rather than themselves.