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TIL that drivers over 85 have almost twice as many fatalities per mile travelled as teenagers in the US.

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xVXv5 TIL Congress has set out a bill to stop the FCC from taking away our Internet. PLEASE SPREAD THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!
R7P59 TIL Eddie Redmayne spent four months researching Stephen Hawking before playing him on-screen when he was forced to sit in a wheelchair for hours, which made it hard to breathe. He watched every single documentary and YouTube video of Hawking and visited a neurology clinic in London every two weeks
EOG7 TIL Audie Murphy, WWII highest decorated soldier, stood alone on a burning tank destroyer firing a machine gun at attacking German soldiers and tanks. Wounded and out of ammunition, Murphy climbed off the tank, refused medical attention, and led his men on a successful counterattack.
9GJG TIL that researchers found that growing up poor promotes eating in the absence of hunger in adulthood, regardless of one’s financial status as an adult.
X070R TIL that in World War I Germany published warnings in American newspapers that they may attack the Lusitania