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TIL that May 12 is International Nurses Day. It is the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.

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m1EKM TIL that Mithridates VI was so paranoid he would be poisoned, he regularly ingested poison to build up resistance. When he was finally captured by the Romans, he attempted suicide by ingesting poison, but failed because of his immunity.
1x88 TIL a man who attempted to commit suicide changed his mind at the last minute resulting in a chain reaction train wreck killing 11. He was later sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences.
OGEG6 TIL that peak employment at Boeing was during the Vietnam War in 1968 where the aviation manufacturer employed 148,672 people, or roughly two-hundredths of a percent of the U.S. workforce.
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