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TIL the third leading cause of death in America is medical error

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VM7Y8 TIL Frank Lloyd Wright cranked out his masterpiece Fallingwater in just 2 hours — the time it took his client to make his surprise visit en route from Milwaukee to Wright's studio at Taliesin.
OoJaX TIL:Pinbal was banned from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s in most of America's big cities. It was a game of chance, not skill, and so it was a form of gambling. In fact, one of the key parts of pinball: the flippers, weren't invented until 1947, five years after most of the bans were implemented.
eLpD TIL: Claude Shannon know as Father of Information Theory, also founded Digital Circuit Theory which triggered the Digital revolution, but was oblivious to the marvels created because of it as he was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.
Z8VKv TIL that spiritual bypassing is a tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks
KOQKB TIL while both tea and coffee plants produce caffeine, this trait evolved independently - meaning caffeine production developed at least twice.