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TIL Seattle has a lower rate of child Polio vaccination than Rwanda.

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pYwJA TIL about Major Dick Bong: The Greatest Fighter Pilot In American History (Flew Under The Golden Gate Bridge)
e0kDE TIL the highest artificial temperature recorded was when scientists at Large Hadron Collider announced that they had temperatures of over 5 trillion K. The team smashed together lead ions at 99% light speed to create quark gluon plasma–a state of matter that filled the universe after the Big Bang.
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