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TIL that people fantasy draft the National Spelling Bee

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yO4e TIL 1997 Britain required civilians to surrender almost all privately owned handguns to the police. More than 162,000 handguns and 1.5 million pounds of ammunition were confiscated, however the British homicide rate continued to increase, rising 50% by 2002
j6eaa TIL that according to a congressional report there are an estimated 2.4 million cases of unnecessary surgery sold and performed on the public every year. Lucian Leape, a former surgeon and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, a renowned patient safety expert cautions
woObY TIL that delta brainwaves are the most dominant frequency in babies, causing a sleep-like state where the mind isn’t usually too active and described as being on autopilot.
kJlVE TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965
M4v7 TIL two men went missing in Naples, FL after being arrested by the same officer for driving without a license, one year apart.