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

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ppl8 TIL The shortest lived nation in history, the Republic of Benin in 1967 only lasted for seven hours.
VM4LQ TIL that the largest distributor of toys is not some toy company or store but rather McDonald's. 20% of all sales (Happy Meals) include a toy. It's 1.5 billion toys each year worldwide.
5VmAr TIL the line on the side of ships called the plimsoll line is named after the MP Samuel Plimsoll
jNXVE TIL about the fact that snakes do turn out to be more social than previously believed and apparently have more complex social interactions than we had previously known.
QNJQX TIL Emirates and Qatar Airways fly nonstop from Dubai and Doha to the US West Coast (San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles), coming within a few degrees of latitude of the North Pole