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TIL 37% of Americans plan to work until they get too sick or die

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k6pW TIL that there is a belief among creationist Christians that Charles Darwin on his deathbed recanted his studies on evolution to the evangelist “Lady Hope”. This of course, never happened and the two never actually ever met.
7rgVP TIL That after winning the battle of Kleidion in 1014, the Byzantine Emperor Basil II took an estimated 14,000-15,000 prisoners, and punished them by sorting them into groups of a 100, then blinded 99 men in each one and left a single man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.
KYkNJ TIL a 1993 study in the British Medical Journal found that in Bristol, unemployment rates and psychiatric hospital admission rates for people under 65 were very strongly correlated, with unemployment rates explaining over 90% of the variation
DQdjY TIL that Matthias Erzberger, who helped negotiate the armistice that ended the First World War, was assassinated at a spa in 1921 by former members of the Imperial German Navy,
QJxvX TIL bees were declared as the most invaluable species on Earth at the Earthwatch debate. Five eminent scientists battled it out for fungi, bats, plankton, primates and bees