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TIL that U.K. Kids Spend Less Time Outside than Prison Inmates

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9pKM TIL more people die each year in the US from STDs than ALL illicit drug abuse.
8aAyP TIL Russell Crowe commissioned Nick Cave to write a sequel to Gladiator. When Cave asked "didn't you die at the end of gladiator" Crowe responded "yeah, but you sort that out"
D8re TIL of the smoke filled room experiment, which shows that even if there’s smoke filling a room people will stay for as long as 20 minutes if no one else is reacting to it. Otherwise they’d leave quickly.
1eGP TIL, The United States government forced the residents of Bikini Atoll to move to multiple uninhabitable islands to conduct nuclear testing, moved them back to a radioactive wasteland, and now has them living on a tiny island living off of subsidies.
nWG7B TIL "feeling that something is wet is quite a feat because our skin does not have receptors that sense wetness"