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TIL Underground caves are formed by acid eating holes in rock

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9a8m TIL that extensive child poverty is the main reason America’s children score poorly on international education measurements. When you measure the test scores of American schools with a child poverty rate of less than 20%, American children outperform every nation in the world.
Wa5L TIL a failed 1970s natural gas operation in Turkmenistan was set alight to prevent the buildup of suffocating gasses in the area and it’s still burning 40 years later
LkJEZ TIL that Maus is the only graphic novel, as of 2020, to win the Pulitzer Prize
E1kl7 TIL: On March 28 1990 Michael Jordan scored a career high 69 points against Cleveland
eMXn TIL that Christine Maggiore, AIDS skeptic who wrote the book “What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?” ultimately died from AIDS-related pneumonia.