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TIL the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake is considered by scientists the greatest natural disaster in human history with 830,000 deaths.

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N79eE TIL that the ancient Incas performed skillful brain surgery with a roughly 80% success rate. In comparison, 500+ years later, Civil War doctors only had a success rate of 50%
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