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TIL that female patients have a higher mortality/complication rate when operated on by a male surgeon.

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yV018 TIL In 1909 then MP Winston Churchill was attacked and whipped by a suffragette.
dD9gK TIL pizza rolls were created in the 1960s by a cook working for a Chinese food company searching for new uses for their egg roll machine. She tested several sandwich fillings, but pizza flavors tested best, causing her to say, "Pizza rolls are nothing but egg rolls with pizza crust and filling."
oBo1K TIL of the Magic Roundabout, the “most complex intersection” in the world.
8eMGG TIL The common electric eel, electrophorus electricus, is not actually an eel, but a type of knifefish. Their shape evolved independently of true eels.
XEB9Q TIL that putting a wire clothes hanger onto your head instinctively makes you turn your head for some reason. This phenomenon is known as the “hanger reflex”. Try it for yourself, it worked for me.