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TIL Space Ghost’s real first name is Thaddeus

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wMGW TIL In the 1960s Pakistan briefly considered changing its traffic system from driving on the left to the right. However, camel trains often drove through the night while their drivers were dozing. The difficulty in teaching old camels new tricks was decisive in forcing Pakistan to reject the change.
XnvP TIL: Albert Einstein wrote an article explaining why socialism is better than “evil” capitalism.
ZV7B TIL that Greenland has the highest suicide rates in the world – 1 in 4 people will attempt it at least once in their lifetime
R7pa6 TIL that four months after actress Brittany Murphy unexpectedly died at the age of 32 in her L.A. home of pneumonia and severe anemia, her widow Simon Monjack was found dead in the same home of pneumonia and severe anemia.
R5x78 TIL about the Book Women: during the Great Depression women would ride packhorses loaded with books to rural Appalachian towns, the Pack Horse Library project aimed to promote literacy.