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TIL that a urologist who lied about performing procedures on 2 patients, resulting in a nearly seven-year delay in diagnosing cancer in one patient, was only suspended for 1 month

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oB6yK TIL: The founder of chiropractic, D.D. Palmer, was a spiritualist who said he "received chiropractic from the other world" from a deceased medical physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson.
1a4gO TIL of Valerie Browning - a woman who with her husband Ishmael has been serving the people of Afar, Ethiopia (one of the hottest places on earth) since 1973. She grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She has been providing medicine, food and education to the people living there.
OMee TIL: Americans can fly to the moon faster than to New Zealand
GYdoG TIL of Vladimir Bukovsky, who spent a total of 12 years in psychiatric hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union. During his time in prison he co-wrote a manual instructing victims of political psychiatry how to behave during interrogation to avoid being diagnosed as mentally ill.
b6LmN TIL - 50% of Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page) played on Donovan's 1966 hit, "Sunshine Superman."