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TIL 500 people are declared dead in the US every month due to clerical errors.

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PDbe TIL that Pat Summitt, head coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team, was so successful that the university twice asked her to coach the men’s team.
W7B9 TIL the East German Secret Police would mess with targets psychologically by sending a vibrator to the targets spouse
78GP TIL that in Russia, to combat low birth rates, Lenin created “Conception Day,” a holiday where citizens didn’t have to go to work so they could try and make babies.
gZ8y TIL the Taliban offered to give up Osama bin Laden for trial before September 11, 2001.
b9JoE TIL there is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind. Volunteers every day read the local newspaper on the air, along best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and much more.