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TIL of Christopher Duntsch, a surgeon so drug-fueled and incompetent he maimed 33 of 38 patients he operated on and was the first convicted of crime in the practice of surgery medicine

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9wR0m TIL nail polish dates back over 5,000 years, with ancient Chinese royals using beeswax, egg whites, and dyes to color their nails around 3000 BCE, long before modern liquid lacquer was invented.
R5egw TIL in the Hungarian language, whether written or spoken, names are invariably given in the "Eastern name order", with the family name followed by the given name.
nWK4G TIL that Nickelodeon was a slang term for early movie theaters in the early 1900s. It comes from Odeion meaning theater in Greek and they cost a Nickel to get in.
KYYkR TIL Galen argued that the liver must be the primary organ of the body because of its role in the production of the humours. The word for "liver" was often substituted for “heart” in ancient Greek poetry, in phrases like "hit in the liver"
rRdNw TIL it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way.