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TIL Arkansas men’s lung cancer rate is 40% higher than women.

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R7G07 TIL That the pilot of the failed Challenger spacecraft's last audible words were "Uh oh"
R7yO7 TIL that in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen prisoners were forced to run marathons all day long to test shoes for the army and private shoe manufacturers. Those who stopped running due to exhaustion were shot.
JYnBB TIL about Bessie Coleman - the first African American woman to obtain a pilot's license in 1921.
xEe7 TIL that teeth won’t decay after death because tooth decay bacteria can’t survive in a dead body.
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