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TIL that the New Zealand govt maintains an online tool predicting when you have a 50% probability of dying by. Based on your current age and sex, and using historical data on age of death and implied trends, it spits out the age at which you are predicted to have a 50% chance of dying by.

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ZkJD TIL In 2003, Juan Catalan was cleared of murder charges, after outtake footage shot for “The Car Pool Lane” episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him and his daughter attending the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder.
grv9D TIL that when Brooklyn Nine Nine started, Melissa Fumero and Stephanie Beatriz feared that one of them would eventually be fired as it was unusual at the time to cast two Latinas in main roles. As a result they tried to make their characters' appearances as distinct as possible.
ej4D TIL: Nazis massacred the entire town of Oradour-sur-Glane, which France never rebuilt and instead kept as a memorial
0dwMM TIL that the gavel used by the US Senate was smashed to bits by Richard Nixon during a heated argument on US nuclear energy
b4YZ TIL That tax-free organizations can’t be used to endorse candidates. Many churches (tax-free) have been endorsing candidates and emailing videos of the crime to the IRS, who does nothing about it