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TIL: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). They are clinics that operate with government funding, sliding scale, and some insured to help care for the communities of uninsured and underinsured.

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Y7O5P TIL: Glenn Miller had 24 top-20 songs in 1939, 38 in 1940, 18 in 1941, and 17 in 1942
ZrOo TIL that in 1971, the U.S. left a memorial on the Moon for every astronaut who died in the pursuit of space exploration, including Russian Cosmonauts
MeoWB TIL that for decades the CIA owned and ran Crypto, a Swiss company that supplied cryptography equipment to many countries; naturally, the machines were rigged to give US spooks access to everyone's communications.
W7Q8d TIL Alfred Hitchcock refused to meet Steven Spielberg, who had looked up to him. According to Bruce Dern, this was because Hitchcock had agreed to be the voice of the Jaws ride at Universal Studios, and looking at Spielberg made him feel "like a whore."
b9L0Q TIL that pooping is really the only reason for a sloth to ever leave its tree, and it's the only time they have to stand upright. They only poop once a week, and can lose up to one-third of their body weight by pooping.