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TIL that medicines are the third largest cause of death in the world after heart and cancer.

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PopZ TIL Oklahoma (not California, Japan, Chile, etc) Experiences More Earthquakes Than Anywhere Else in the World
wLpl8 TIL Back in 2000, James Cameron discussed filming at International Space Station with Tom Cruise. When Cameron asked "...somebody’s gotta train us as engineers.’ Tom Cruise said, ‘No problem, I’ll train as an engineer.’
xVLd1 TIL Costco’s $6,000 Doomsday Food Kit Only Gets Your Family Through Year One of the Apocalypse. The kit is delivered as two pallets of boxes that together weigh 1,800 pounds. To keep neighbors in the dark, Costco promises everything is “packaged discreetly.” The some products expire in 30 years.
PYKVG TIL there are isolated tribes that violently reject contact with the outside world near India. They are some of the last people to be untouched by modern civilization.
jNOnN TIL about a Lithuanian artist who designed a roller coaster whose purpose is to kill people through euphoria obtained by g-forces and appropriately called it "Euthanasia coaster." He got this idea while working at an amusement park.