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TIL more people die from drowning in deserts than from dehydration.

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MRva TIL that two months after escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11, a 26-year old woman died on American Airlines Flight 587 that crashed in Queens, New York, killing 265.
XgJj TIL That there have been nine different studies on DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) and all agree that the program does nothing or worsens the problem
gMkp8 TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.
Y6Ax TIL that if you come face to face with mountain lion you should wave your arms and yell at it. Also never break eye contact until you slowly move away.
5Y7Xp TIL of Oak Ridge, a city built in the U.S. in 1942. 100,000 people lived and worked there doing very specific tasks, most of whom with no idea of what they were working towards. In 1945 they saw news reports of the atomic bombings of Japan and realised they’d been working on the bombs all along