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TIL that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US
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TIL that Buzz Lightyear was originally conceived as a "Dudley Do-Right" kind of character: dim-witted but cheerful and self-aware. He was then re-envisioned as an action figure who isn’t aware that he’s a toy, and who therefore takes his job as an Intergalactic Space Ranger quite seriously.
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TIL Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, AKA ‘Butcher of Lyon’ for his torture of Jews and French resistance, was smuggled by the US to Bolivia for anticommunist work. For 30 years he also aided multiple dictatorial regimes, paramilitary groups, and even Pablo Escobar with security and torture services
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TIL in Arizona you can legally marry your first cousin if both of you are 65 or over, and one of you can't reproduce
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TIL about the Traverse Gap. When this valley floods, it creates an unbroken waterway between Hudson Bay and the Mississippi
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TIL 40% of British government expenditure in 1833 was compensation paid to slave owners following abolition. The amount borrowed to fund this wasn’t paid of until 2015.