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TIL that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US

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nrDB TIL that upon leaving office, President Harry S Truman chose not to be on any corporate payroll, believing that taking advantage of such financial opportunities would diminish the integrity of the nation’s highest office.
R5lQj TIL that a lot of Latin American flags look similar because they based their color scheme proposed by Goethe, who derived it from his work rebuking (incorrectly) Newton's laws of optics
nWXBb TIL a nuclear accident at SL-1 created a burst of steam so powerful that a piston-like effect threw the whole 26 000 pound nuclear reactor vessel over nine feet upward. The cause of the incident isn't known because the workers didn't explain why they removed a necessary rod prior to the explosion.
9wKQM TIL about the Lost Apple Project, a nonprofit organization that searches abandoned farms in the Pacific Northwest to locate old apple varieties that have been thought to be lost or extinct. There were approximately 17k varieties of apples in the US, but only about 4.5k are known to exist today
pG8G TIL the whoopee cushion was invented by a 14-year old Roman Emperor, who used it frequently on guests. He was assassinated by the time he was 18.