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TIL that most doctors don't swear a hippocratic oath and if they do it doesn't say anything about profiting from unnecessary treatment or taking care of all patients regardless of ability to pay or suspicion of criminality.

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kJrVe TIL there is a depleted gold mine in Yellowknife, Canada that is sitting on 237,000 tonnes of Arsenic. The mining company had exhausted the area of gold and handed it back to the federal government, which is now freezing the Arsenic to keep it contained.
LQB8r TIL one episode from the Pokemon anime, titled "Dennō Senshi Porygon", had a scene that caused viewers to experience seizures, temporary blindness, convulsions, and lost consciousness. 685 viewers, all of them kids, had to be taken to the hospital. It never aired outside of Japan.
406J TIL: Only just 30 years ago, supreme court ruled that states have the right to criminalize gay sex.
l789G TIL that in terms of deadweight tonnage, 40% of the world's commercial ships are each registered in one of three countries: Liberia, Panama, and the Marshall Islands.
AJAd TIL if you make $16/hr in 2015, you’ll make more than the Prime Minister of India