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TIL that surgeons who play video games for at least 3 hours a week make 37% fewer errors and are 27% more efficient in their procedures.

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vea7 TIL The oldest university is a mosque founded in 859
OWP1 TIL Sid Vicious, the bassist of the Sex Pistols, asked Lemmy Kilmister to teach him how to play bass with the words, “I can’t play bass,” to which Lemmy replied, “I know.”
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R5m0a TIL about Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands. The islands, which are uninhabited, are among the most remote places on Earth, they can be reached only by sea, which from Australia takes two weeks