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

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R7dPQ TIL that the Argentine Government once went through a series of 5 presidents in less than a fortnight.
nemDW TIL of the 1995 Bojinka plot: a plan to assassinate the pope, bomb 11 US-Asia airliners, and fly a plane into the CIA headquarters. It was foiled after an accidental fire drew suspicion from Filipino police. It was financed by Bin Laden and 9/11 is considered to be a 2nd attempt at a similar attack.
Yp9bW TIL the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built as a memorial to WW1 veterans in 1923 and will be the first stadium to host 3 different Olympics games.
BrKr TIL Russell Crowe was unhappy with the screenplay of Gladiator. The famous line “In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance” he initially refused to say, telling writer ”Your lines are garbage but I’m the greatest actor in the world and I can make even garbage sound good”.
GMJ5 TIL An Australian beetle almost went extinct because the males couldn’t stop trying to mate with discarded brown beer bottles, thinking they were totally hot female beetles.