› added 10 years ago

95

TIL Cambridge Bay, Canada has a 0.0% chance of sunshine throughout December

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

aPKy TIL in the US, maternal deaths during pregnancy declined to 9.1 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies by 1986. It has risen since then and now is at 18.5 deaths per 100,000.
16lJ4 TIL that while the name of the largest great lake is Superior in English, it is Gitche Gumee in Ojibwe
VBYY8 TIL That Americans Were Eating Sushi in 1905, and that there were Japanese restaurants in most American cities.
J1ZQ TIL that people with active hunting licenses in the US outnumber the active military of China by more than 6 to 1
ZpP7o TIL Volunteers comprise 65% of firefighters in the United States. Of the total estimated 1,041,200 firefighters across the country, 676,900 are volunteer. Communities served by volunteer firefighters depend on them to be their first line of defense for many types of emergencies.