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TIL that Americans have the highest cancer survival rates in the world.

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E1W8x TIL Memorial Day was started by former slaves as Decoration Day during the Civil War to celebrate emancipation and those who fought for justice. During the Jim Crow era, the holiday was whitewashed into the apolitical Memorial Day to erase the "divisive" issues of slavery and Black citizenship
4Oo6 TIL Barbera and Hanna experimented with Hillbillies, Romans, Pilgrims, and Indians before settling on the Stone Age for their cartoon “The Flagstones”, which later became “The Flintstones”.
b9p5E TIL the 2011 Japan earthquake was so powerful that it moved Japan 2 meters to the east and shifted the Earth on its axis.
Ylb7 TIL that in the movie Lord of War, The production team rented 3000 REAL SA Vz. 58 rifles to stand in for AK 47s because they were cheaper than prop guns.
PYM1J TIL humans live closer to the time of the T-Rex than the T.rex lived to the time of Stegosaurus