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TIL "Hey Jude" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" were both recorded using the same piano

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vNjL TIL “Killing Season” is a British medical term for the time in August when newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service. Patients admitted as an emergency during “killing season” are six per cent more likely to die.
r5jW TIL Futurama is named after an exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair that showed what they thought the world would be like in 1959
jJ7Q TIL that aerial dogfights used to be pilots shooting at each other with pistols and throwing bricks
w6PJ TIL that nearly 30% of all American workers need a license to perform their job– including florists, make up artists, ballroom dance instructors, hair braiders and in 21 states, even travel guides.
VDlG TIL in 1955 a woman in Morocco went into labor, and needed a c-section. Terrified of the surgery she fled the hospital and never gave birth. 46 years later, stomach pains revealed the now calcified ‘stone’ baby in her womb.