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TIL that uninsured Americans just die if they can't afford to pay their medical bills.

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BDOx TIL in 1985 a man drowned at a pool party full of lifeguards that were celebrating that no one had drowned that season
vbK TIL Pat Summit, former University of Tennessee Women’s Basketball Coach, had a student-athlete graduation rate of 100%. She coached for 38 years.
p8lD8 TIL of the term "Nerd Prom" and the three events it refers to: San Diego Comic-Con, White House Correspondents' Dinner and American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting
v90D TIL of the 1987 Goiânia accident in Brazil. Two scrap merchants stole equipment left in an abandoned hospital and inadvertently released radioactive material from a radiotherapy device, resulting in 249 contaminations and four deaths
87Ba TIL That Portugal decriminalized, not “legalized”, drugs 12 years ago, and it’s working.