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TIL In Japan hospitals must be run as non-profit and be managed by physicians.

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aEM9 TIL in early 2000s enterpreneur Ken Belanger sued Microsoft for illegal use of his “Pocket PC” trademark. Ken’s “Pocket PC” was a 1985-made plastic coin with 0 and 1 engraved on front and back sides.
9jMp TIL nearly 2/3 of the Hindenburg’s passengers survived the fiery wreck, and one still lives today, 80 years later.
VVoB TIL in 2012 Verizon’s CFO, addressed data plan concerns, telling attendees at a Goldman Sachs investor conference “Unlimited is just a word, it doesn’t really mean anything.” He continued: “That whole unlimited thing, I think, is going by the wayside.”
VM68m TIL 'fight or flight' is actually a description of the male response to acute stress. The female response can be more accurately described as 'tend and befriend'. This has implications for how we think about what stress does to our bodies and how best to cope with and recover from it.
PYYdw TIL that the Skylab Mutiny was the first and only organized labor protest to happen in space