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TIL The leading cause of death for US hospital patients isn’t heart attack or stroke, but infection picked up in hospital

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kJjNB Today I learned that India discontinued its jury-based system largely because of the K. M. Nanavati case.
wLrD1 TIL Though fully described by John Langdon Down in 1862, Down Syndrome has been featured in numerous works of art since antiquity, including an Ancient Egyptian figure, and Clay figure from Mexico from about AD 500
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