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TIL the U.S. has nearly double the unemployment rate of Mexico

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KYVDJ TIL - the pH scale used in chemistry and medicine was developed at the Carlsberg R&D lab in their effort to provide a more consistent product to their customers
9Y7Xm TIL: Medically managed hypothermia has been popular and in use in medicine since the 1930s-1940s when research was conducted demonstrating the absence of irreversible neurologic change in humans cooled to as low as 26*C over a 24-hour period after sustaining traumatic brain injuries.
loK1a TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper was so friendly with his local police that they initially thought his phone call confessing to killing his mother was a weird prank. They also didn't know he'd killed his own grandparents in his teens because that record was expunged.
KYAa6 TIL about the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, the largest gold heist in British history. Robbers stole 3 tons of gold, valued today at ~£100M (then £26M). Much of the gold was never recovered and it is thought the rest made its way back into the legitimate market. Only two of the six robbers were jailed.
nwJb TIL: Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct within the next 10,000 years.