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TIL the Miami Heat’s “Vice” basketball jerseys surpassed the sales of every other NBA team’s jerseys combined

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9Y0WX TIL a study about VIP hospital patients discovered that physicians reported feeling pressured by patients, family members, and hospital representatives to provide unnecessary care. The study also found that the VIP status of a patient impact physician clinical decision-making.
mxmyo TIL that new drivers in B.C., Canada have to display a sticker on their car with the letter "N" on it (for "New" Driver) for at least 18-24 months.
YQ57 TIL that the vast majority of organisms make their own Vitamin C. Humans are one of the few species that cannot synthesize it.
m1YVP TIL Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis in 2008
ANLDw TIL in 2020, it was announced that AlphaFold, a neural network based on DeepMind AI, can predict a protein's final shape based solely on its amino-acid chain with an accuracy of 90%. Predicting the structure of a polypeptide from its sequence is considered of the greatest challenges in biology.