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TIL that doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually

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1vn7 TIL a 120-meter-deep, 17th-Century salt mine in Romania has been converted to the world’s largest salt mining museum and amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, light shows on the rock walls and boat rides on a subterranean lake.
5Mx8 TIL That Sean Connery single handedly beat up four men in a night club while Michael Caine held his coat.
D1KrY TIL The Show "Extreme Makeover" was cancelled because a woman committed suicide after she felt guilty that producers forced her to make negative comments about her sister, a participant on a canned episode of the show.
nk67 TIL Odds of being attacked by a candiru (penis invading fish) are “about the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark.”
mxvPx TIL that marketing firm Exactis leaked over 340 million records of personal information on public unprotected servers (data including but not limited to age and gender of children, addresses, pets, smoking habits, etc) and this breach affects nearly every single American.