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TIL Children living below the federal poverty line are 60% more likely to have a psychiatric disorder.

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a8pno TIL the Alabama Hills are in California, not Alabama. Confederate sympathizers named the range after the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during the Civil War. Kearsarge, another area of the Sierra, is named for the ship that sunk the Alabama.
oPbK TIL In the early 90’s, director David Zucker commissioned Trey Parker and Matt Stone to make a video to promote Universal Studios… This was the result
QJY7M TIL that association football's all-time top goalscorer may well be a 5'10" chain-smoking lesbian from the early 20th century. Lily Parr's career ran from 1920 to 1951 and she reputedly scored almost 1000 goals in this time.
VBZ8 TIL William Shatner (Captain Kirk) is unable to do the Star Trek Vulcan Salute. Originally a hand gesture of various Jewish denominations, Shatner required fishing line to tie his fingers into the now-famous salute.
X09RP TIL about The Alaska Triangle, which has a disappearance rate that doubles the national average and over 20,000 people have gone missing there since the 1970s.