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TIL Louis C.K. is the director, writer, and star of his critically acclaimed show “Louie,” which he edits on his own Macbook Pro while his daughters are at school.

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PLQV TIL George Washington Carver turned down a job working for Thomas Edison making $100k/year (~$1 million year today) because Carver believed his inventions should be made free to the public.
LaOp TIL a nurse named Sandra Clarke had to leave a terminally ill patient alone when asked to stay. When she returned, the patient had passed away from multi-organ-failure. No One Dies Alone was then created, a charity where volunteers sit with terminally ill lonely patients. it’s now international.
QJNX9 Physicians and veterinarians agree: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and is sick like a duck, it's best for it to be treated by someone trained to treat a duck. Faced with such a scenario, physicians would be armed only with what they know about human biology. And that doesn't go very far, says Rika Maeshiro, the director of Public Health and Prevention Projects for the Association of American Medical Colleges.
dPd TIL Six states in America have a “State Dinosaur”
766M TIL soda is fizzier in cans (vs plastic bottles) because CO2 cannot escape an aluminium can. CO2 escapes sealed PET bottles quite readily.