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TIL there are 33,000+ PhD graduates receiving public aid in the United States.

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D1wNJ Today I learned that Panko was made by electrifying bread
b6G7a TIL Harry Houdini died on Haloween due to Appendicitis. While giving a talk at McGill university, a student asked to confirm a rumor that he could resist punches. The student then proceeded to punch Houdini with no time to prepare for the trick, which is believed to have ruptured his appendix.
DQ4WJ TIL Only ten U.S. states do not have a commercially navigable waterway that connects to the ocean.
bWgQ TIL Two days after an ant dies, it gives off an odor that lets the other ants know it is dead. The ants then pick it up and carry it to a graveyard.
m1YGy TIL of the SS Warrimoo, a ship that claims to have crossed the intersection of the International Date Line and the Equator precisely at the turn of the year from 1899 to 1900.