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TIL Three out of the last 4 US Presidents were born in 1946

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6gE8 TIL there are “cancer villages” in China, where residents are hundreds of times more susceptible to cancer due to pollution.
vkxj TIL Ebola killed 0.1% of the population in Africa’s three most affected countries in 2014. The average person there is more likely to die in a traffic accident than by Ebola and almost nobody there wear seatbelts
9wK76 TIL about Fucking Hell. is a German pale lager, a Pilsner. It is named after Fucking, the previous name of the village of Fugging in Austria; hell is the German word for 'pale' and a typical description of this kind of beer. The beer's name was initially controversial
jNRxR TIL that in the 50s a frenchman was both fined and given a gold medal for the unintentional killing of an estimated 90% of the rabbits in France, 99% in Britain and many more across western Europe
XDAQ TIL a nine year-old boy robbed a New York bank in 1981 and got away with $118.