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TIL that if medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America

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P1nXe TIL that the largest earthquake in history was in Valdivia, Chile with a magnitude of 9.5 and a fault line of over 1000 miles. A magnitude 10 quake or higher is impossible because the fault line would have to encircle the earth, and no fault line is that long.
kwbe TIL that Archaeologists has discovered a beautiful, huge, well-preserved stucco wall sculpture with its colors intact in Guatemala under a buried Mayan pyramid. The stucco frieze, measuring 30 feet long and 6 feet tall, is painted red, with details in blue, yellow and green.
BDoK TIL Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote a massive screenplay in 1987 called ‘The Open Road’, which would later get split into two separate screenplays called 'True Romance’ and 'Natural Born Killers’.
69RoW TIL nearly half (46%) of US EV owners want to switch back to a gasoline-powered car.
mKop TIL that monarch butterflies seem to remember an ancient mountain that used to stand where Lake Superior is now, and they still veer around that long-gone obstacle during their migration flight across the lake.