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TIL that Jimmy Carter's siblings and father all died of Pancreatic Cancer, with all of his siblings dying within 7 years of one another.

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R7QG4 TIL the United Kingdom's average height declined during the industrial revolution due to poor working conditions and increasing inequalities in society
Z8X8G TIL about Scheele’s Green, a popular pigment in the 1800s made with deadly arsenic. One famous death was of a flowermaker, who dusted the pigment onto fake foliage. “She vomited green waters; the whites of her eyes had turned green, and she told her doctor that ‘everything she looked at was green.’”
P1MYZ TIL That the Atlanta episode about a progressive lesbian couple adopting several black children to use for money and clout. Eventually killing themselves when it is found out is based on a true story. Unfortunately in reality they also killed the kids
LklO0 TIL of conjoined twins who share a brain stem. When one is tickled, the other jumps, and putting a pacifier in the mouth of one could cause the other to stop crying. There is evidence that the twins can even see through each other's eyes.
jNMgR Til that the bailiff Petir Hawkins-Bird on Judge Judy makes one million dollars a year.