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TIL Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US

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VMxG TIL that a computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory.
PYleZ TIL The ancient Greeks had known the world is round since Pythagoras, and successfully calculated the circumference of the globe when Eratosthenes measued the angles of the mid-day sun between two towns of a known distance. His calculation had only about a 10% margin of error.
yp0a TIL that in the first study to show hormonal bonding between humans and another species, it was found that staring into your dog’s eyes causes a rise in oxytocin - the same hormone that bonds human mothers to infants.
njpB TIL: In 1998 NASA grew Insulin in space. Researchers found that it was so effective it could reduce Insulin intake from 1-3 times per day to once every 3 days.
e0axJ TIL that if an Interstate is an odd number, it runs North and South and even numbered Interstates run East and West.