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TIL Mississippi has more than 5 times as many fatal motor vehicle crashes (24.9 per 100,000 people) than Massachusetts(4.9).

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WkL0d TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.
Egm9o TIL that a person in a coma for many years can still grow if they are young, as their body continues to produce growth hormones.
yZZl TIL In 1933 Soviet Russia dumped 6200 people on an island in Siberia and left them with only flour for food, a small amount of tools and no shelter. A month later 4000 of them were dead.
v17kR TIL before becoming a popular "horror" author for children R.L. Stine wrote joke books, but more importantly for Bazooka Joe comics and the jokes on Bazooka bubble gum wrappers.
ANN54 TIL that most Native Americans died because of Eurasian Germs like Smallpox, not because of European military success in the New World