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TIL: Video Games Have Shown a Strong Statistical Link to Improving Medical Surgeon Performance

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b9eZa TIL the only university that would allow the movie Animal House to film on their campus was the University of Oregon. The Dean of the school had previously refused to allow The Graduate to film there and didn't want to miss another opportunity so he gave them full access without reading the script
16vRP TIL American Civil Right Activist Malcolm X and Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh worked at the same Boston hotel bakery at different times
40bJ TIL that two Undercover Agents repeatedly tried to buy marijuana at the Lagunitas Brewing company taproom, but were unable to make any busts as generous patron’s kept trying to give them the drugs for free.
wN88 TIL that Finding Nemo, a movie about the suffering of a captured clownfish, ironically caused home aquarium demand for them to triple.
dkMQ TIL the Indonesian Communist Party was once the largest non-governing Communist Party in the world, and was effectively dissolved through a US-supported mass killing of 500,000 of its members.