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TIL in 1952 due to unsual weather patterns, a large amount of smog from nearby Coal plants collected over London for a series of 4 days, killing an estimated 12,000 people

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6Q5m TIL we’re now exposed to as much data in a single day as someone in the 15th century would be in their entire lifetime.
VJP0 TIL on why he’s never visited Russia, Prince Philip (the Queens husband) replied - ‘I’d like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.’
R5nAQ TIL that since 2017, each surgery resident in a teaching hospital acts as the surgeon in at least 850 operations during their 5 year residency training.
6Mvm TIL that every attempt to permanently settle the island of North Rona off Scotland has ended with the entire population being wiped out.
p8kMe TIL of Doug Tompkins, a high school drop-out and the co-founder of North Face and Esprit. He eventually sold both businesses and started to do conservation work in South America with his second wife, former CEO of Patagonia. A very experienced outdoorsman, he died from hypothermia while kayaking.