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TIL a single hospital has a catchment area equal to the size of one-third of Canada

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5Yemp TIL 1.5 yrs after Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live, he was asked back to host. In his opening monologue he asked "How did I go from not being funny enough, to being so funny I'm hosting the damn show? Then it occured to me. I haven't gotten funnier - the show has gotten really bad."
ANWlw TIL the B-24 'Hot Stuff' was the first heavy bomber to complete 25 missions in Europe during WWII. However, after a crash on the way home killed 14 of the 15 onboard, the USAAF celebrated the B-17 'Memphis Belle' as the first bomber to reach 25 completed missions
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5VyP8 TIL the astragalus of a prehistoric rhinoceros, collected by the Ancient Greeks, was discovered at the Mycenae archaeological site in the 1970s.