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TIL: Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies

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9o9Q TIL of “Gish Gallop”, a fallacious debate tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments, that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time. It was named after “Duane Gish”, a prominent member of the creationist movement.
e0p64 TIL that Iran's government subsides gender reassignment surgery and considers sex change surgery to be acceptable
R7vPw TIL that the bagpipes are a double reed instrument, using reeds similar to the oboe and bassoon.
Br7lx TIL that, if nobody was overweight, we could support 111 million more people without increasing energy production
8JKL TIL:Daylight Savings costs the U.S. an estimated $434 million in lost productivity and decreased health.