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TIL British army members have a 50% lower mortality rate than the average population, primarily due to fitness requirements and high safety standards.

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68jQ TIL: The idea that humans could not have been created in their current form was first reasoned by Anaximander more than 2400 years before Darwin’s Publication of “The Origin of Species”
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