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TIL: The dollar value of a human life

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QJR1d Today I learned that the country with the highest average male height is Montenegro at 6 foot 0 inches
d8GG8 TIL Thurgood Marshall had to memorize the U.S. Constitution in high school as punishment for misbehaving in class.
ner7Y TIL of "Futility", a novella about the Titan - the largest ship of its time. It's dubbed an "unsinkable" ship, and doesn't have enough lifeboats. It hits an iceberg in mid-April in the Atlantic and sinks, killing most of its passengers. The book was written 14 years before Titanic's maiden voyage.
wLkBP TIL that France granted the US permanent, rent-free possession of the American cemetery in Normandy, which contains the remains of 9,387 fallen troops plus a memorial to 1,557 killed there whose remains were either not found or not identified.
loOEA TIL of "Dreadnoughtus", one of the largest dinosaurs that ever existed. The fossil skeleton of the individual was 85ft/26m, but was not even a full grown adult and expected to grown even larger!