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TIL Every year about 10,000 containers fall off ships to the sea

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XErE TIL Pablo Pineda was the first student with Down Syndrome in Europe to obtain a university degree.
0d9lv TIL that Chiasmus is used to create a persuasive or emotional effect on an audience and is found repeatedly in the Bible
X0og8 TIL that the US, Canada, and Cuba have the lowest burden of food borne illness on the planet.
kJWa4 TIL: Tesla may have been the first person to patent the radio.
eOm4 TIL when Private 1st Class Edward H. Ahrens in WWII was found clutching a sword surrounded by 13 dead Japanese soldiers, his final words were “I guess they didn’t know I was a marine.”