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TIL Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S Deaths

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0ENp TIL Supposedly haunted locations share a similar low-frequency sound that can cause fear and panic in humans
Z80pG TIL that according to Cambridge Computer Scientists who collected over 300 million facts, the most boring day in history was April 11th, 1954.
dWoQ TIL that in 1979, debris from NASA’s Space Station “Skylab” crashed in to the small town of Esperance, Western Australia. The town then fined NASA $400 for littering.
LQ6wV TIL Keyboard instrument already exist since the third century BC. The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria.
BrMVD TIL the first Zildjian cymbals were created in 1618 by Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist who was looking for a way to turn base metal into gold. He made an alloy of tin, copper, and silver into a sheet of metal, which could make musical sounds without shattering.