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TIL that a coronary bypass surgery in India costs around $1,583. The same procedure costs around $106,385 in U.S.A.

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loM1K TIL of Cherophobia, which consists of a person’s fear or anxiety to activities that could make them happy, often believing something bad would occur, that happiness can make them bad people or even that looking for it is a waste of time.
5Y4En TIL that due to a strong dislike towards mixing of science and politics, Einstein said were he a young man again, he'd choose to be a plumber or a peddler, to which many plumbing companies responded by making him the honorary plumber. Also, there are many Einstein Plumbing companies in the US now.
YpQK7 TIL The 2-step initial pawn move is absent in Indian chess; thus, en passant is also absent. Normal castling with rook and king is absent. The king can make a knight's move once in a game, known as Indian castling. On reaching the opposite end of the board, pawns promote to the piece of that square.
yjZa TIL that the WWI race horse Man'O'War had such a powerful genome that 37 percent of race stakes winners in 1966 were his direct descendants
P1Ybe TIL John Wayne Gacy can be linked to two other serial killer "operations" by what seems to be sheer coincidence