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TIL The UK has an Alarming 50% Higher Death per 100k rate Than The US!!!

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GAgd4 TIL railroad gauges are approximately the same width as old Roman Chariots but that it is largely coincidence and the original gauge of 4’ 8-1/2” was established by a man from the 1820s, who used the gauge because it was common from roads in the area.
5Ymp9 TIL - Steve Jobs became a billionaire because of his work at Pixar, not because of his involvement with Apple.
NWlE TIL: Scientists found a tomato plant on a volcanic island and were perplexed as to how it got there. Turns out it grew up fertilized in the poop left by a previous researcher.
ZaBp TIL An Air Canada flight took a detour to find a stranded Australian yacht. The passengers of the Boeing 777 found the yacht only 25 minutes after the distress beacon was activated.
4XlXo TIL that St Chad of Mercia is jocularly suggested to be the patron saint of botched election due to the confused nature of his appointment as saint and the relation to the word chad which is the small fragment of paper left when holes are made in paper