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TIL In a 2019 Gallup poll, Americans rated the honesty and ethics of different professions: Nurses (85%) at the top for the 18th year in a row, followed by Engineers (66%) and Medical Doctors (65%); and Car salespeople (9%) at the bottom, just under Members of Congress (12%) and Senators (13%).

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kJOr5 TIL 32 years after the Hillsborough disaster, officials added a 97th victim to the death toll. Andrew Devine suffered irreversible brain damage in the crush and passed away in 2021
xV5L5 TIL that lung cancer risk after quitting smoking remains elevated for decades and stays more than threefold higher than never smokers after 25 years of quitting smoking.
49R6 TIL that telling “scary ghost stories” on Christmas eve is an all but lost Victorian tradition
wodxP TIL a Serbian farmer from Kosovo was at the centre of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a bottle into his anus.
MerD0 TIL During the Vietnam War the act of "Fragging" was when US troops would toss a grenade in their commanding officers tent; known and suspected fragging cases by explosives in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972 totaled nearly 900...