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TIL: That 432 people own half the land in Scotland.

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erxn TIL drug overdoses from opiods increased 14% in 2014, killing 40,000 people. This is an increase of 137% since 2000. More people die from drug overdoses, says the CDC, than in road accidents: just under 33,000 people died in traffic accidents last year in 2014.
ZpA7p TIL a group of vultures that is feeding is called a wake
woVxM TIL After the release of the 1965 Czechoslovak film 'Loves of a Blonde' hundreds of boys travelled to the town it was set in, because the film falsely depicted women outnumbering men there 16-1.
Ne5P TIL that Stalin screened “The Grapes of Wrath” in the Soviet Union to showcase the depredations of life under capitalism. It backfired. Russian audiences marveled that in the United States, even poor people had cars. (6th paragraph)
e0QeJ TIL they tried to approve the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange on December 2016 to a Chinese Consortium out of Chicago.