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TIL Blacks in the lowest bracket of GPA-MCAT scores have a higher chance of medical school admission than whites and asians in the highest bracket of GPA-MCAT scores.

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8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife
XEQaR TIL that Minnie Mouse's full name is actually Minerva
5Ynvk TIL that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct a film adaption of H.P Lovecraft's At the mountains of madness but it was cancelled by Universal due to the fact it was R-rated
DMRP TIL that a patent on raising a sunken ship by pumping it full of buoyant balls was denied because of prior art in a 1949 Donald Duck comic
xVxj1 TIL Frosty the Snowman was animated in Tokyo, making it, by definition, an anime. The same studio (Mushi Productions) also animated Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (because they're made with stop-motion, they don't count).