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TIL after a mine explosion killed 29 coal miners in 2010, a study found that 6 out of 7 tested victims had black lung, including one who had worked in the mines less than five years.

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GAp11 TIL The Romans had the first newspaper in the world, the Acta Diurna, or Daily Doings, in 59 BC. Although no copies of this paper have survived, it is widely believed to have published chronicles of events, assemblies, births, deaths, and daily gossip.
gMKMX TIL Marty Robbins, (The Big Iron guy) is a really big anti-communist, and he wrote a song about it.
P4de TIL, for over 20 years, Cuba has been aiding and treating more than 18,000 children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, for free.
MeVN8 TIL the Japanese word "arigata-meiwaku". It is the feeling you have when someone does you a favor you didn't want them to do, and which might have caused you trouble, but you have to act grateful anyway.
DQDjj TIL The rarest eye color is green, as only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. About 10,000 years ago, all humans had brown eyes and over half the people in the world have them