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TIL that Garfield was never meant to be funny.

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XE1Y6 TIL Texas is the only state with it's own power grid, the Texas Interconnected System, which is therefore not subject to federal interstate regulations
jN5Kp TIL Sweden has a higher percentage of English speakers than Canada.
dNp7 TIL The simple act of a surgical team stopping to answer a set of 19 questions such as “Do we have the right patient?” and “What operation are we performing?” has been proven to reduce deaths by more than 40% and complications by one third.
ZebG TIL a UK judge ordered a criminal to be released as at a height of 7'2" he was too big for prisons.
pY6WG TIL in 1965 part of the training to be Special Forces Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab at Fort Bragg where they had to shoot a Dog (The Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then successfully treat the wound