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TIL Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S Deaths
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TIL Supposedly haunted locations share a similar low-frequency sound that can cause fear and panic in humans
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TIL that according to Cambridge Computer Scientists who collected over 300 million facts, the most boring day in history was April 11th, 1954.
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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.
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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.
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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.