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TIL that the US has more ICU beds per capita than any other country

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VyGp TIL the solar system is moving through the Local Interstellar Cloud, proving that you are never in the same spot more than once on a cosmic scale.
pWEO TIL Stone Temple Pilots formed when singer Scott Weiland and guitarist Rob DiLeo met at a concert. They began discussing their girlfriends and eventually realized they were both dating the same girl. Instead of letting this come between them, they both dumped the girl, bonded over it and formed STP.
GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.
xV57o TIL students in competitions to design fuel-efficient vehicles routinely design vehicles capable of travelling THOUSANDS of miles per gallon of gas.
graAb TIL that medical students and suffragettes clashed during the Brown Dog affair in 1900s. A small brown dog was dissected when Swedish women protested as they claim the dog was conscious during the procedure. Then medical and vet students united and let off a stink bomb at an animal activist's talk.