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TIL that Mississippi has the highest child vaccination rate of any state. (99.7%)

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OoRBR TIL in 1949, 15 ‘smokejumpers’ were parachuted in to deal with the Mann Gulch wildfire, but they soon had to run for their lives. Only 3 survived, one of whom did so by lighting his own escape fire, to give him a charred patch to enter, so that the main fire went right around him
WmeY TIL John Carpenter’s “The Thing” was poorly received after its 1982 opening, with reviewers calling it “the quintessential moron movie of the 80s” and “sacrificing everything at the altar of gore”. The film has been reappraised substantially since then.
N7EoQ TIL Quebec's provincial government intentionally misclassified 20,000 children as mentally ill and confined them to psychiatric institutions in order to misappropriate federal subsidies for the benefit of the Catholic Church
78epO Today I learned that Super Bowl I was broadcast on both NBC and CBS and that the video tapes of the game were subsequently wiped out by both networks to save costs.
VJJ0 Today I learned that scientists proved in a study that the bond between people and their dogs is similar to the way people bond with their children, which explains the deep attachments formed to pets.