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TIL in the US there is a 1 in 93 chance you will die in a motor vehicle crash in your lifetime

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E1B87 TIL of 2015 Book [Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War] by American Susan Southard. It recounts the lifelong experience of five teenage hibakusha (survivors ) after the bombing of Nagasaki in WWII
JAJV TIL The Statue of Liberty was planned to be built in Egypt to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal
Ypd7v TIL that During Cambodian genocide, the Khmer Rouge killed children of their prisoners by smashing their heads on a "Chankiri tree". Those soldiers laughed as they did it, since not laughing could indicate sympathy, making them targets, too.
BrAJx TIL That Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms
Q61d TIL that The parliament of Iceland, established in 930, is the oldest active parliament in the world.