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TIL over 100 Firefighters a year are arrested for arson.
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KOxB
TIL that badgers will sometimes hunt cooperatively with coyotes
QJAye
TIL that Cruise Ships have complimentary morgues that can hold up to 10 bodies, as seniors tend to be the primary customers. Not so recently this service was booming.
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TIL that only about 10% of stock trades are done by actual humans. The remainder is done by high frequency trading algorithms and day trading bots.
RRn6
TIL that the first message sent over the Washington-Moscow hotline (aka “Red phone”) was “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1234567890”. To make sure all keys on the teletypes were operational.
WeQo
TIL the fattest country in the world isn’t the USA… it’s Kuwait. The second is Saudi Arabia, with 72% of those over 40 classified as “clinically obese”.