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TIL that the total US highway fatality rate perfectly correlates to the number of fresh lemons imported from Mexico

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NZKN TIL the Titanic’s older sister ship, the Olympic kind of was unsinkable, it crashed into a plethora of things without sinking and was used in WWI to ram and sink German U-boats.
XE46X TIL South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut would've got an NC-17 rating if they used more than 400 swear words in their movie, they intentionally used 399 swear words
Oo78a TIL Between 1950 and 1970, Foggy Bottom was transformed from a run-down industrial slum to a high-rent luxury apartment district, considered one of the best downtown residential sections in Washington DC
k4Og TIL that famous Mormon Brigham Young once said “If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of [Africans], the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”
79X7 TIL that Earth is only just inside the habitable zone by 1%. We very nearly too close to the sun to ever have life as we know it.