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TIL that Dolly Parton started a programme where she would send a free book to any child every month up to their fifth birthday and that any child from the US, UK, Canada and Australia is eligible.

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p8QBA TIL as of 2020, there have been 15 astronaut and 4 cosmonaut fatalities during spaceflight. The current statistical fatality rate is 3.2 percent.
e0NMk TIL Fidel Castro was obsessed with ice cream, once consuming 18 scoops in one sitting. His love for ice cream inspired him to implement a fully fledged dairy industry in Cuba and he even opened his own ice cream parlor.
W7JvN TIL that toxicology researchers analysed "George's Marvellous Medicine" from Dahl's book in 2020, and, predictably, found out that George would have murdered Grandmother. The ingestion of the Medicine, even from the censored 2023 edition, would cause "kidney injury, convulsions, cardiac toxicity".
x7Lk TIL the city with the highest crime rate in the US is East St. Louis, IL; its murder rate is 101 per 100k residents, which is more than double that of the city with the number 2 murder rate, Gary, IN, and also higher than the country of Honduras, whose murder rate is the highest in the world.
wLXWM TIL a man worked at the restaurant at the top of WTC. After 9/11, they never saw him again and presumed he died in the towers. In 2003, the government removed his name from the 9/11 memorial — he might have used the tragedy to start a new life without telling his family.