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TIL a woman with no medical qualifications impersonated a nurse & treated nearly 1,000 patients while working at a hospital & medical center in British Columbia. Her day job at the hospital involved administering patients with drugs like fentanyl & monitoring their vital signs while under anesthetic

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oRpXL TIL that John Cazale worked as an actor only for seven years and starred in five movies. All of them were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
J1oNV TIL a study on heartbreak found that people struggling to move on reported thinking about their ex-partners for 85% of their waking hours, a level of obsessive fixation that researchers say parallels the cravings of drug addiction.
R7VX6 TIL Marlon Brando earned $3.7m and 11% of the profits for appearing in Superman (1978) as Jor El, while Christpher Reeves was paid $250k as Superman
4WAX TIL: broccoli has nearly twice the vitamin C of oranges by weight
x6MM7 TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" faced excommunication. His reign lasted 13 days