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TIL women are about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.

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E11NW Right after they invented the garage.
KYvQa TIL that in Christianity, archangels are not the highest-ranking angels. They are the second-lowest level of angels.
xwR1 TIL Actor Samuel L. Jackson had a stuttering problem as a child and still sometimes battles with it today. To combat the stutter he uses the curse word “motherf**ker” as an affirmation word.
EGp7 TIL Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on an asteroid, collected samples in 2005. The probe returned to earth in 2010.
grdyA TIL the northernmost inhabited place in the world is "Alert" in Canada. The armed forces stay here all year round in tours, but the official population is 0. Average temperature is -17C (0F).