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TIL the 1 billion smokers in the world contribute to the 880,000 second hand smoke deaths each year from those that do not smoke.

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QNaLe TIL that the original Scooby-Doo series, Scooby-Doo Where Are You?, only ran for three seasons and 41 episodes (1969-1970, 1978)
b97Z4 TIL the University of Colorado named their cafeteria grill after an infamous confessed cannibal, Alferd G. Packer, with the slogan being "Have a friend for lunch!".
d8Ob8 TIL in 1998, Alex Trebek donated of 74 acres of open land (worth $2m at the time) in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for the purpose of conservation and as a wildlife corridor
yQy4a TIL The FBI Hostage Rescue Team was conceived after FBI Director William H. Webster witnessed a demonstration by Delta Force. When he inquired as to why the men did not carry handcuffs, an operator replied "We put two rounds in the forehead. The dead don't need handcuffs."
GYly1 TIL of Baby Nancy, a girl who died shortly after birth. Her father, an officer on the USS Utah, brought her ashes aboard with the plan to bury her at sea. During the Japanese attack, he escaped the ship but could not rescue Nancy's ashes, and they are still in his locker to this day.