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TIL that 17.8% of U.S. Presidents have died while in office

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J1r78 TIL of Pre-Code Hollywood, a period between the invention of sound in films and creation of the MPA, which produced socially-progressive and anti-capitalist films in the 1920s before Republican & Catholic-led censorship
oB9gR TIL that Russia was founded by a group of Scandinavian vikings and traders, called the Rus, who initially set up trading towns between their home and the Byzantine Empire.
OGjRL TIL that anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba contributed to a 1989 compilation album called “Fuck EMI,” and several of their early songs criticized the record label. In 1997, they signed with EMI.
GANE1 TIL India has a vast and rich (and unexplored) dinosaur fossil beds which is not even well known in India
DQARj TIL about the Darién Gap, the Panama/Colombia border where no paved roads are built. This gap of densely packed marshland bisects the Pan-American Highway, cutting South and North American off from having a contiguous highway route across the two continents.