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

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lYN1 TIL that Daveigh Chase (little girl from The Ring) has committed animal abuse on a dog, even going as far as to leave it abandoned on a Nevada highway with a cigarette burn on it’s neck. Her boyfriend successfully took the dog’s new family to court and retained custody.
9YJvm TIL There was an ancient kingdom in Northern Africa literally called "Pwnt."
ZK8Q TIL: Amazon’s profits for its entire existence are still less than what ExxonMobil takes home every 2.5 weeks.
x6oJk TIL that doctors at Yale University found that make-believe games are the "forerunners of the important capacity for forms of self-regulation including reduced aggression, delay of gratification, civility, and empathy.”
4Xabb TIL Canadian Inuk writer Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk never had formal education before she was twenty. In the 1950s, she started writing a novel in Inuktitut syllabics when a missionary asked her to write some sentences in Inuktitut so he could learn the language