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TIL Cuba’s infant mortality rate still among lowest in world. In 2015 Cuba’s infant mortality rate was 4.3 per 1,000 live births–with 535 child deaths out of 125,064 births recorded in the year.

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nWlLY TIL the Hawaiian Pizza was created by a Canadian who immigrated there from Greece
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WoPY TIL that in 2009 Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” when confronted about the search engine’s privacy policies.
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