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TIL that indoor air pollution kills more people than AIDS and malaria combined.

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e0xYk TIL that Readjuster Party, led by two former Confederate officers in post-Civil-War Virginia, abolished the poll tax, abolished the public whipping post, funded public schools for African Americans, hired African Americans as teachers, and founded the historically black Virginia State University.
d8g8B TIL: Rusting gears, beams, & wheels on the coast in Marseille show where an innovative ride was. One could pay to use a special cable car that ran underwater. For safety, pro divers went with the tourists as the pods skimmed along the seabed. It opened in 1966, was shut down after around one year.
Z8x0v TIL of Peter O'Connor, an Irish Olympian forced to compete under Great Britain due to a rule change. Unhappy with this, he smuggled in a green Irish flag and proceeded to scale Britain's flag pole during the award ceremony. He waved his flag at the top while his teammate guarded the bottom.
QYRk TIL in 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major-label recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format
5VM9D TIL that Science Vs had a whole episode on what would happen if we had a pandemic - October before the pandemic happened - and it was surprisingly good at depicting what we'd see