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TIL: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world?

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N7moP TIL of the song "Ngge Loves a Watermelon", also known as that melody played by ice cream trucks.
VBKe8 TIL on 2nd July 1602 in Edinburgh Alexander Rowan ("ane cruel man") was hanged for “setting ane woman’s bare arse on ane girdill quhen it wes red hot”
0dRMv TIL Penny, from "The Big Bang Theory" has a last name, revealed in season 2 if you looked closely on a package delivered to her. Her last name is Teller.
nWraP TIL the first commercial brand of root beer, was originally to be called “Root Tea,” but was instead named “Root Beer,” to make the beverage attractive to Pennsylvanian coal miners.
JYed8 TIL that one of the people convicted during the (thoroughly debunked) Satanic Panic of the 80s, which accused daycare workers of abusing children for Satanic purposes, is still in prison