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TIL Every year in the US, doctors' bad handwriting results in 7000 deaths, plus more than 1.5 million injuries.

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y40v TIL in the 70’s South Korea discovered 4 tunnels from North Korea, believed to be incursion routes capable of accommodating 30,000 men per hour. It is believed that there is up to 20 more, undiscovered.
pYJrp TIL about Mansa Muhammad, the predecessor of Mali's most famous ruler, Mansa Musa. He disappeared circa 1312 leading an expedition into the Atlantic Ocean
OoROa TIL about molluscum contagiosum. Commonly called "the wrestling disease" It is a skin infection with no cure. It can take the immune system 6 months to 4 years to clear it up. Depending on transmission it can also be classified as an STD.
R7l87 TIL that the marker for the Four Corners Monument in the US where visitors put their bodies in four states at once, is off by 1,800 feet to the east meaning most tourists technically just visited New Mexico.
Xe0E TIL lobsters were once considered “poverty food” and served to prisoners and servants