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TIL that Diarrhea killed approximately as many people as HIV and AIDS in 2012

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pYxWb TIL that In 1816, after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, Earth experienced the “Year Without a Summer.” Global temperatures dropped, leading to food shortages, crop failures, and extreme weather events
ANPlB TIL Sacheen Littlefeather, the "Native American" woman who accepted the 1973 Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando (for his performance in The Godfather) while he boycotted the ceremony to protest the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood, was actually a "pretendian" posing as a Native American.
wjJM TIL that Demi Moore is the same age as Rue McClanahan when she first started on Golden Girls.
LmLQ TIL a 108-year-old Santa Monica woman said in an interview of her extraordinarily long life, “It doesn’t pay to live too long.” She had long since outlived her husband, and her son had recently died in his 80s.
8a59G TIL there was a 1920 novel about Abraham Lincoln's mother titled 'The Matrix.'