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TIL: Life expectancy in the USA (77.28 years) is almost 6 years lower than Australia (83.20 years)

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NvXJ TIL that humans can live unprotected in space for about 30 seconds if they don’t hold their breath.
m11VR TIL International Whores' Day is today, 2nd June
E9WP TIL The man who was allegedly assaulted in a McDonald’s for wearing a cybernetic eye (Steve Mann) was also assaulted in 2004, and the attack also damaged the memory buffer of his device and stored images of the attacker.
j6daR TIL that The Sting (1973) was the first movie by Universal to win the Oscar for best picture in 43 years, since All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
pYZye TIL about John Birges Sr., who decided to recuperate his heavy gambling losses by planting a bomb in Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Casino to extort $10 million in 1980. The FBI ultimately failed to defuse the bomb “unlike any we’d seen before” and it exploded 34 hours later.