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TIL there have been no recorded human deaths due to a meteorite fall.

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0wNZL TIL it's cheaper to adopt a black baby than other types of children. Adopting biracial, Latino, Asian or Caucasian children typically has a longer waiting list than for black children. The agencies cut the cost of adopting black children as a means of creating incentive.
JYgyQ TIL Mister Rogers saw his weight of 143 lbs as a gift. He said, "The number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?"
jNP9n TIL Thomas Jefferson was skeptical about extinction, and thought mastodons were probably lurking in the deep West.
NXVL6 TIL the Wayne Gretzky trade from Edmonton to the LA Kings yielded a "Trade Tree" that lasted 34 years (i.e. the players and draft picks Gretzky was traded for in 1988 spawned their own trades and draft picks over the years, with the final player leaving the NHL before this current season.)
1kv8 TIL According to the US soldiers who guarded him, one of the few times Saddam Hussein ever looked defeated in prison was when they brought him the wrong cereal. (Fruit Loops. He hated Fruit Loops.)