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TIL: Roughly one in five U.S. workplace deaths occur at construction sites

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rpRo TIL: 60% of the Fat and 31% of the calories in Burger King’s Chicken Sandwich come from the mayonnaise alone
ND9E TIL except for the dutch all current european monarchs (Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK) are descendants of Queen Victoria and King Christian IX (Denmark). At the start of WW1 their grandchildren occupied the thrones of Germany, Russia, the UK and 5 other countries.
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