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TIL that of the 48 million Americans with hearing loss, only 1% or 500,000 use sign language

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YOWW TIL The Nazis were the first to convincingly link smoking to lung cancer and first coined the phrase passive smoking.
oByPK TIL a couple in Berlin during WWII, who lost a relative in battle, left handwritten anti-Nazi government postcards around the city for more than two years before being caught and later executed. The 2016 film "Alone in Berlin" depicts this story, albeit with artistic license.
GYD5N TIL Richard Klinkhamer's wife "disappeared" in 1991. He then wrote a book on seven ways to kill your spouse. In 2000, new owners of his former home found the skeletal remains of his wife, and in 2001 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 2003 for good behavior.
1Mlr TIL nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar.
eG64 TIL that the German word for birth control pills is antibabypille.