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TIL: Faulty calculations of a doctors surplus led U.S. medical schools to put a moratorium on enrollment between 1980 and 2005. During that time, the US population grew 70 million, but the number of medical school graduates stayed at 16,000 yearly.

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pY7A4 TIL - MacGyver series ran from 1985 until 1992, as a result, for 37+ years we've been using the word "MacGyvered" as an adjective meaning "adapted or improvised in an ingenious or expedient way.". In March 2019, the term was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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