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TIL the #3 cause of death in America - behind heart disease and cancer - is medical mistakes

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X0a76 TIL about Carcinisation, a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans tend to evolve a crab-like body morphology. It has been described as "the many attempts of nature to evolve a crab"
N8eP TIL Most body fat exits the body through exhaling.
nejPb TIL Jonathan Hensleigh, the writer of "Die Hard With a Vengeance," was interrogated by the FBI over his screenplay. The plot Hensleigh devised to rob the bank was so plausible, the FBI wanted to know where he got his information.
WWwd TIL: In Nigeria’s Yoruba culture, the second born twin is the elder twin. The first born twin (Taiwo) is kicked out of the womb by the second born twin (Kehinde) to ‘test’ the world. Kehinde knows it is safe once Taiwo starts crying.
4YmR TIL Jean-Paul Sartre hallucinated seeing crabs for most of his life after taking mescaline.