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

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VGg8 TIL Mother Teresa was criticized by the medical press for her view on ‘suffering’, which she enacted at her 'Home for the Dying’ in Calcutta, with her position being “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot… the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”
V9bG TIL that when Finnish Mathematician Lindeberg was asked why he was not very academically active he said he is a farmer first. When asked why his farm is shit he said it is because he is an academic first.
kOdJd TIL Food deserts are places where residents don’t have access to affordable nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables. Instead these areas often have convenience stores and gas stations with limited shelf space available for healthy options - making nutritious foods virtually inaccessible.
xxj0 TIL that ‘Mad Men’ understated its depiction of drinking, smoking, and sex in 1960s Manhattan. Advertising veteran Jerry Della Femina said that “Three-martini lunches were the norm … The only thing that saved us was that the clients and agencies that we were going back to drank as much as we did”.
OxwY TIL: The most decorated US regiment was a japanesse american unit. They won 18,143 awards. Served in almost every theater of war, won 21 Medals of Honor, 52 Distinguished Service Crosses, 560 Silver Stars, 4,000 Bronze Stars and 9,486 Purple Hearts.