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TIL Black Cats were traditionally considered good luck by French-Canadians

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mx1JY About a third of our planet’s food goes to waste. That’s enough food to feed the nearly 800 million people going hungry and then some.
rRG7x TIL people who are always running late tend to end up living a longer and healthier life according to Harvard researchers.
LQEkZ TIL that the highest (Mount Whitney) and lowest (Badwater Basin) points in the contiguous United States are located only 85 miles apart.
vOrB TIL Diseases from dirty water and lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
nWyP7 TIL that the rarest event ever recorded was the radioactive decay of xenon-124 (an isotope of the element xenon used in flash lamps and ion thrusters in spacecraft), which was detected by a dark matter detector