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TIL motorcyclists are almost 30X more likely to die than other motorists

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W7odA TIL Earth is the only known place in our solar system where fire occurs, and no known exoplanets have enough oxygen to allow fire to exist.
KQQE TIL Robert Downey Jr. only made 500k for Iron Man, but two years later made 10 million for Iron man 2.
jPdX TIL that the French Foreign Legion allows you to enlist with a fake identity, allowing members to effectively start their lives over.
9W6M TIL that between 1947 & 1948 the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax recorded prison and chain gang songs in Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries. They are incredible.
8aZd8 TIL Creators of Thalidomide were high ranking nazis and there is a possibility it was tested on prisoners in concentration camp inmates