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TIL women on average actually get in more accidents per mile than men, but men are far more likely to be in fatal accidents

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W9oo TIL, that mathematician, George Dantzig solved a simplex linear problem, that was thought to be impossible to solve, by accident, because he arrived late to class, and thought the problem on the board was a homework assignment.
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