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TIL People are more likely to give up smoking when they live in areas surrounded by grass and trees

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mx64E TIL Loretta Lynn's Song "Coal Miner's Daughter" is 100% a true story. The song describes her dad working all night in the coal mine and hoeing corn all day. Her father really was "a coal miner and subsistence farmer," and she really was born in Butcher Hollow, KY.
8e9Y4 TIL The characteristics of a newborn with cri du chat syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, include a high-pitched cry, a small head and a flattened bridge of the nose. There is no cure
6xrl TIL: John Clem joined the US Army at 10 years old and at 12 shot and killed a Confederate Colonel who demanded his surrender earning his promotion to Seargent becoming the youngest NCO is US Army history
j61R TIL: Someone wrote his Name 1,000 meters high, and two miles wide into the sand and it’s visible from space
pwgp TIL of an unfinished skyscraper in Venezuela inhabited entirely by squatters