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TIL Surgeons that grew up playing video games more than 3 hours per week make 37% fewer errors and had a 33% faster completion rate on performing laparoscopic surgery

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9wQ0m TIL mindfulness teachers get angry too
dDYV9 TIL that the first wind turbine was introduced in 1887 by a Scot called James Blyth. He offered to power the street lights of the village of Marykirk, near Aberdeen, using his 33ft turbine – the villagers refused and called it “the work of the devil.”
KYdo4 TIL a group of religious folks in Canada that believed in anarchy, vegetarianism and being naked clashed violently with the government. They detonated bombs and had naked protest parades because they felt their land and children were being unfairly taken from them
Xnm8 TIL that according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2012 there were 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees – a number exceeding that of uniformed personnel in the U.S. Army.
xVRG7 TIL: Kenan Thompson is the longest tenured SNL member ever