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TIL the risk of being a homicide victim is highest during the first year of life

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OGggL Today I Learned -- A palliative care nurse asked dying people about their regrets and the most common regret was : "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me"
xVgJw TIL that when all cables were suspended form poles, the insane number of cables created a rather strange and sometimes even scary streetscape.
jND6n TIL Michael Jackson is the only known human to go 60 days without real sleep (REM sleep). He would 'fall asleep' every night using propofol, which creates medically induced comas.
R7GOQ TIL that 100's of years ago scribes drew colorful ¶ ("pilcrows") to mark new paragraphs. They'd leave blank spaces for the ¶'s then switch inks and add them. They would often miss some so readers evolved to interpret a blank space (indent) as the start of a new paragraph. Voila.
4X5yN TIL that Jamaica has a national bobsleigh team. Since its debut in 1988, they have represented their country in the Winter Olympics seven times—six times for the men's team, and once for the women's team.