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TIL that half of all human deaths from the beginning of time can be attributed to malaria

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5YKoR TIL that Greenland Has a Grand Canyon Beneath Its Ice, Carved by Ancient Floods, where Ancient topography lurks beneath the white expanse.
d9L7 TIL Tony Bennet is a WW2 Veteran that narrowly escaped death and took part in liberation of a concentration camp. He eventually was demoted for dining with a black friend.
ApRg TIL A Polish immigrant, who didn’t speak English, was tasered to death by Canadian police. A memory card containing video of the incident was later taken away from a witness.
b9Gn0 TIL that on April 1st, 1991, a thief stole a box from the trunk of a car in New York City and discovered six partial human heads with the backs of the skulls cut away. They turned out to be specimens for study at an infirmary and not a strange April Fools' prank.
neX8o TIL that Dr. Carlo Urbani recognized the emergence of a outbreak of pneumonia as a new epidemic and immediately notified the WHO, personally flying to Hanoi to investigate. He would die this day in 2003 of SARS, having triggered the most effective response to an epidemic in history.