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TIL that 50% of health care spending is used to treat just 5% of the population.

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4Xkn6 TIL: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world?
dLZ8 TIL Helsinki, Finland has an annual celebration called Dinner Under the Sky, where all Helsinkians can set up a table outside and enjoy their dinner on the city’s sidewalks, parks, or even in the middle of the busiest shopping streets.
a8Aoy TIL Sally Ride the first female astronaut in space was asked by NASA if 100 tampons was enough for a 6 day trip to space
XlnX TIL that hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of Chinese have been detained in labour camps or prisons since 1999 where they are subject to abuse, torture, and organ harvesting because they practice Falun Gong
awrk9 TIL the word helicopter doesn't come from heli+copter but helico+pter from the Greek helico meaning spiral and pteron meaning wing