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TIL doctors' illegible handwriting kills more than 7,000 people a year.

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nWoB7 TIL that a study in 1974, to test if leading questions can distort eyewitness testimony, indicated that indeed "the questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a reconstruction in one’s memory of that event."
VBoQk TIL that knowledge is not power
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