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TIL that American Indians and Alaska Natives have the highest smoking rate of any racial or ethnic group. Asian-American women are the smallest demographic of smokers, making up only 2.6%.

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yKwe TIL Andrew Jackson said for a people to really be free they need to have a revolution every 20 years
wd9E TIL porcupines have natural antibiotics in their skin, and are the only mammals native to North America to have such protection.
1jDP TIL In 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.
Ar6l TIL that North Korea once attempted to solve its food shortage problems with ostriches. Most of which end up on the plates of the rich and powerful in Pyongyang.
WZ18 TIL that NASA often shows the Hollywood movie “Armageddon” as part of its management training program and then asks its new staff to identify as many scientific inaccuracies as they can. There are at least 168 of them