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TIL that almost 40% of the schizophrenics die from complications of cardiovascular disease which is seen to be increasingly associated

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gdgL TIL that in 1985, 2 men broke into Fran Drescher’s home and one of them raped Fran and her friend and gunpoint while Fran’s husband was tied up and forced to watch the ordeal.
AWQw TIL That Batwoman was introduced in 1956 in order to quell suspicions that Batman was homosexual. Now, Batwoman is actually portrayed as lesbian.
Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
4kEJN TIL In Ghana, citizens also celebrate Feb. 14th as National Chocolate Day. This tradition began in 2007, and its purpose is to ensure that locales eat chocolate made in the country.
P1ZoL TIL: A scientist involved in the US nuke project determined the age of the world, created the clean room, and campaigned against leaded gasoline because it was poisoning everyone.