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TIL Medical errors kill more Americans every year than guns, cars and alcohol combined.

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nY4B TIL that weeks after “The Soup Nazi” aired on Seinfeld, the man (Ali Yeganeh) that the character is based on kicked Jerry Seinfeld out of his restaurant for ruining his business. When Seinfeld gave him an insincere apology, Yeganeh ejected him from the restaurant, yelling, “No soup for you!”
PYkMZ TIL You're not supposed to wash your mouth with water after brushing and instead spit out any excess toothpaste. Washing results in washing away the concentrated fluoride in the remaining toothpaste.
neE5Y TIL that Hitler had all the copies of the first propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl destroyed, simply because it showed him talking closely with disgraced Nazi Ernest Röhm. Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives. A single surviving print was found in England in the 1990s.
YEKv TIL it takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times.
kBZe TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy was once genuinely in love with a woman with large dark hair parted down the middle. She rejected him. He then went on to kill over 30 known women, most of whom had long dark hair, parted down the middle.