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TIL US is 5% of world’s population but consumes 75% of the worlds prescription drugs.

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epOgD TIL French ambulances always stabilize patients at the scene rather than rushing to a hospital. Many injuries in the US result from penetrating trauma & require fast "scoop-and-run" management by surgical teams. In France, most injuries are due to blunt trauma so a "stay-and-play" strategy is used.
DQP8r TIL that Jabba the Hutt was depicted as a yellow walrus-looking man in Marvel Comics's adaptation of A New Hope. This was before Disney bought both properties.
AD984 TIL that A 'kangaroo word' is a word that contains the letters of its own synonym, in order, like MAscuLinE, ChOCOlAte, cHickEN. And a double kangaroo word has two joey words, like Containter for CAN and TIN
7Q8L TIL If North Korea detonated its largest nuclear device (7 Kilotons) at the White House, it wouldn’t even reach the Lincoln Memorial just up the street.
9gXD TIL that the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the legislation to form the Secret Service was on his desk.