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TIL more Male babies die yearly than Males who are 100. Also, 85ish seems to be real avg life expectancy.

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7j67 TIL that a house remix of the theme song from “The Price is Right” reached #1 on the Billboard dance charts in 2001.
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M0W8 TIL that after listening to Is This It by the Strokes, lead singer of The Killers (Brandon Flowers) got so depressed at how good it was that he scrapped all the songs they had been working on except one. That song he kept was Mr. Brightside.
QNJQX TIL Emirates and Qatar Airways fly nonstop from Dubai and Doha to the US West Coast (San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles), coming within a few degrees of latitude of the North Pole
xvAo TIL the University of Oregon plagiarized the section on plagiarism in its student handbook from the section on plagiarism in Stanford’s teaching handbook.