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

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DQQrY TIL The largest carnival float ever was 35 m, featuring a skateboarding bulldog surfing in an 24 m ocean of water. It weighed 45,000 kg
jx7X TIL that Moose Boulder is the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.
0d6eR TIL That between the introduction of human growth hormone-therapy (using the glands of human cadavers) in the late 1950s and 1977, 226 patients were infected with CJD, a fatal prion disease. Today, we use synthetic growth hormone, which doesn't carry this risk.
XEvZj TIL prosecutors considered, but ended up not, calling a husband's parrot as a key witness in a wife-husband murder case after the bird kept repeating "don't shoot" in the victim's voice; wife found guilty anyway.
J17B1 TIL Portugal didn't dub any feature film in European Portuguese until 1994, when The Lion King came out. Pre-1994 movies were dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese because of a lack of interest from Portuguese companies and the high quality dubbings already made by Brazilians.