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TIL that doctors in countries with more “socialized medicine” only make slightly less annually than U.S. doctors. A major argument against social medicine is that doctors should be well-paid, and social medicine would demand major pay cuts.

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XYXE TIL the American and UK versions of the comic strip Dennis the Menace were both released on the same week in March 1951. Both share the same title, a trouble loving boy in a striped shirt, and a sidekick dog. Neither of the creators of either comic strip knew that the other was being created.
0wPG5 TIL of all felines, the Margay (tree ocelot), native to Central and South America, is most adapted for a true arboreal life.It is the only cat to possess the ability to rotate its hind legs 180°, enabling it to run head-first down trees like squirrels.It can also hang from a branch by one hind foot.
D1JKP TIL about 'Out 1', a French film nearly 13 hours long, with a 'short' version itself being 4 hours long. It was also shot at a framerate 1fps faster than cinemas at the time could playback, which made the film 30 minutes longer. Some critics pen this as one of the greatest films ever made.
p8Kye TIL that Sagittarius A* - the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way - has a mass 4 million times that of our Sun, but a diameter only 31 times the Sun's. It is so dense that it could fit in the space between the Earth and the Sun, but can attract things 50k light years away.
nWrld TIL an apocryphal story states that the Roman Emperor Honorius was shocked upon the news of the 410 AD Sack of Rome. However, the emperor thought the news regarded one of his favorite pet chickens named Roma, and upon learning it was the city of Rome, the emperor breathed a heavy sigh of relief.