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TIL The number of Mexican homicides since 07’ is greater than the combined civilian death toll of Iraq and Afghanistan

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XLgr TIL Gambling is extremely wide-spread in Finland with slot machines in almost every store… however, it’s monopolized and all profits go to charities (including the treatment of gambling addiction)
X0Ld8 TIL that Prisons FC is an Ugandan professional football (soccer) club owned by Uganda Prisons Service, currently playing in the Ugandan Premier League.
d8m1E TIL that deaths from 9/11 related illnesses will soon outpace the number of people lost on that fateful day.
WkQxL TIL Every able-bodied resident of the Russian village of Tsovkra can tightrope walk. The tradition goes back more than 100 years and nobody is sure how it started.
egrD TIL Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development is actually an albino black man. The writers subtly hinted at this, but the plot line never developed due to Fox cutting the seasons short.