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TIL US Traffic-Related Death Is 344% Higher Than In The UK & 892% Higher Than Hong Kong's.

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R7ol7 TIL that a black cemetery in Florida disappeared 100 years ago. The local newspaper started looking for it and through old documents learned that maybe a public housing complex had been built over it. An archaeologist used ground-penetrating radar to see what was in the ground. He found 120 coffins.
pYaD8 TIL that Dee Bradley Baker was the voice of Olmec on Legends of the Hidden Temple
5wwD TIL In 2001 a 15-year-old Australian boy dying of cancer had a last wish - to have sex. His child psychologist and his friends organized a visit to a prostitute before he died.
1a9K4 TIL that some people in rural Eastern Europe historically opted not to identify with a particular nationality and instead self-identified as “tutejsy”, meaning “from here”.
0drYL TIL that author John Ajvide Lindqvist claims Hammer Films swindled him into selling all film/TV rights to his classic vampire novel "Let the Right One In" for 1 Swedish Kroner -- about .93 US cents