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TIL Neolithic houses had doorways on the roof.

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vo7B TIL that IBM’s Watson was tested on 1,000 cancer diagnoses made by human experts. In 30% of the cases, Watson found a treatment option the human doctors missed. Some treatments were based on research papers that the doctors had not read. More than 160,000 cancer research papers are published a year.
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