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TIL More than 48% of medical students come from the top income quintile, while less than 6% come from the bottom quintile.

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5Vo6R TIL a rose bush can change color due to grafting. Often, any color of rose is grafted onto a hardier rootstock, like the Dr. Huey variety. The grafted bush can die, and the rootstock grows again and produces a dark red rose, no matter what color the bush was before.
m1vXp TIL that the hooded pitohuis is a poisonous bird. In 1990, when museum workers tried to put the bird in a museum, their hands began to burn. They are the first documented poisonous birds.
6eaZ TIL Dave Grohl is the drummer on all three Tenacious D studio albums
GN0g TIL Dalia Dippolito, the woman sentenced to 20 years for hiring a hitman to kill her husband in 2009, is currently still only on house arrest 5 years later. Despite everything being video recorded.
OoM7R TIL Countless would-be adventurers have been rescued attempting to reach the bus where Chris McCandless died in "Into the Wild," as well as three known instances of fans being found dead.