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TIL a ton of money is worth $908,000 (weighing only dollar bills)

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epRpE TIL Among the 210 000 burials registered in Quebec before 1800, 178 mentioned an age at death of 100 or more, including a 113 year old. This led to the idea that French Canadians have exceptional longevity. But after verification, only one centenarian remained
p8yJQ TIL that a micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure riskiness of various day-to-day activities
WZOX TIL that after he was accused of witchcraft, Giles Corey was subjected to “pressing.” He was stripped naked and weight was added to a heavy plank on his chest to force him to plead innocent or guilty. Each time he was asked to make his plea, he said “more weight” and was eventually crushed to death.
oRYb7 TIL that the US government wasted $247 billion dollars in 2022 alone ($2.4 trillion in the past 20 years) simply due to payment errors.
Z8V0B TIL in 2017, Offspring’s Dexter Holland Finished a Ph.D program in molecular biology. Publishing a 175-page dissertation on the molecular dynamics of HIV and general virus/host interactions.