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

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Z8bjp TIL The Dallas Cowboys were founded when Clint Murchison Jr. inherited his oil tycoon father's fortune of $200 million ($1.4 billion in today's money) and decided to start his own football team with the money.
98er TIL Neil Young is developing a new audio format called Pono, which “aims are to confront the compressed audio inferiority that MP3s offer”, “to present songs as they first sound during studio recording sessions”
ADDld TIL Laika, the first living being launched to space exactly 60 years ago, had a painful death. Until 2002 russian authorities sustained she survived for several days and died painlessly, assuring it was possible to live in space.
OGK51 TIL of Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist who rejected conventional genetics and natural selection. Lysenko believed plants of the same species never compete, and so forced farmers to plant seeds very densely. This actually harmed yields, contributing to large famines in the USSR, and later China.
7rl9Z TIL that Elton John was Eminem’s sponsor. “When I first wanted to get sober, I called [Elton] and spoke to him about it,” said Eminem