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TIL that China has a higher life expectancy than the U.S.

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OoNm6 TIL: The wealth of a samurai in feudal Japan was measured in terms of koku; one koku, supposed to be the amount of rice it took to feed one man for a year, was equivalent to around 180 liters.
mwVY TIL that the average worker in the US would have to work 50% more hours to afford a home than a worker in 1950.
wL58o TIL Osama bin Laden left a will that he had written shortly after 9/11 in which he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad.
KOV1B TIL “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” is a typing drill written by a teacher named Charles E. Weller. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” is now used instead, because it exactly fills out a 70-space line.
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