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TIL 27% of Canadian university graduates do not have the basic level of literacy traditionally required to function in modern society.

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69mEW TIL James A Garfield's medical treatment after his (then) attempted assassination went horribly, because of the lack of sterile techniques and infection control which ultimately led to his death from infections. The assassin later said, "Yes, I shot the President, but his physicians killed him.”
5R9k TIL that Kevin Smith’s Clerks (1994) was filmed in black and white because of budgetary limitations, and not for any artistic purposes or expression.
JYnWB TIL that a piece of art called "The Persistence of Chaos" , a laptop filled with six of the world’s most dangerous viruses (including ILOVEYOU & WannaCry) is on sale for more than $1 million.
8OOG TIL that Jenna Miscavige Hill, daughter of Scientology leader David Miscavige, first learned of the church’s closely-guarded secret doctrines concerning aliens via the “South Park” episode “Trapped in the Closet”
XErME TIL The Aral Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world, has been drying up since the 1960's due to poor water management practices, so much so that the eastern basin is now called the Aralkum Desert, full of ghostly relics of rusting ships and decaying docks.