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TIL of "Daughter from California syndrome", a phrase used in the medical profession to describe situation in which a long-absent family member arrives while a patient is dying to demand inappropriately aggressive care.

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gMkBb TIL that at it's height, 'Old London Bridge' had over 200 shops, with some buildings 6 storeys tall. The bridge was home to one of London's most notorious sights — a display of the severed heads of traitors on spikes. The first head to be displayed was that of William Wallace.
j67XR TIL Oscar winning actor Cillian Murphy and his wife bought a cinema dating back to 1919, and that was forced to shut down during the COVID pandemic , to give it a new lease of life. You can find the Phoenix Cinema in Dingle, Ireland.
ep0xb TIL that in 1932, Edith Roosevelt, the Former First Lady and widow of Theodore Roosevelt, campaigned for Herbert Hoover's re-election to emphasize that the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was not her son.
X4QD TIL Brown eyes are actually blue underneath the brown, and as a result there exists laser surgery to turn brown eyes blue
4X8Wo TIL Terrence Howard thinks 1x1=2. He has detailed a system called “Terryology” that he believes is “true universal math”. For a time he also devoted up to 17 hours a day to cutting up wires and plastic to form building-block-like contraptions he believes will bring truth to the universe.