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TIL Bill Gates warned us about how unprepared we were for an Pandemic in TED talk 2015.

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PYVNV TIL that "blackasses" is a slur used in Russia for people from the Caucasus.
Y7XRZ TIL of Hannah Beswick; who was so afraid of being buried alive that she paid her physician to be kept above ground and be provisionally checked for signs of life after she died. She was finally buried 110 years after her death, being declared "irrevocably and unmistakably dead"
An5B TIL A D.A.R.E Cop was caught selling 414 Ecstasy Pills and 50 Bottles of Ketamine to an undercover cop from a different town. The Dare Cop was also a son of a Former Police Captain and lived in a house owned by the retired Police Captain.
dDred TIL the tallest mountain in Tahiti (Mont Orohena, 2241 metres) is taller than the tallest mountain in Australia (Mount Kosciuszko, 2228 metres). This is despite Tahiti's land area of just 1000 sq km (400 sq miles) compared to Australia's area of 7.6 million sq km (2.9 million sq miles)!
8aJj8 TIL that Trader Joe's was founded in 1967 by a guy named Joe, but since 1979 has been fully owned by a German family named Albrecht.