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TIL the US has the highest critical care hospital beds per capita, by a wide margin

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6Bgm TIL: Muslims don’t believe Jesus was crucified, they think God replaced him with some poor bugger who looked like him.
690DJ TIL the Japanese government gifted Dr. Yamanaka, known for his work on induced pluripotent stem cells, 160,000 yen for a washing machine after he won the Nobel Prize, as he mentioned in an interview, "I was in the middle of repairing my washing machine when I heard the news."
166E4 TIL that newborn foals have soft "tentacles" on their hooves. It's to protect the mother's uterus and birth canal from the sharp edges during pregnancy and birth.
0dyd1 TIL there’s a spaceballs tv show.
rNEPy TIL that in 1894 the U.S. Army killed 30 American citizens during the Pullman Strike. Union organizer and future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was called "an enemy of the human race" in a New York Times editorial, and imprisoned for mail obstruction.