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TIL country music is positively correlated with suicide rates in metropolitan areas

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MegKW TIL of surgeon Robert Liston, who in the era of before anaesthetics, could amputate a limb in under 30 seconds and was known, in order to free both hands, to hold the bloody knife in his teeth.
R5RY6 TIL of The British Doctor's Study of 40,000 doctors was a 50 year long study that was the first to provide evidence of a causal link between smoking and lung cancer.
R1L9 TIL psychologist David Rosenhan made a deal with a hospital: he would try to admit at least one sane patient to the hospital, in order to test the validity of psycho-analysis. 41 out of 193 were considered imposters. In reality, Rosenhan sent no patients to the hospital.
e0R86 TIL that when Bette Midler started her career in the early 1970s, she was the singer in a gay bathhouse in New York often accompanied by Barry Manilow on piano. Manilow produced her first album and that patrons of the bath house were her first hardcore fans.
kJw0E TIL that Milton Hershey was booked on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but had a change of plans for business reasons and, instead, traveled on the German liner Amerika, which had an earlier departure date.