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TIL Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the USA

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AD8oo TIL about Benin City - a wealthy, highly advanced and prosperous city in Africa that was rich in architecture, culture and trade. It even had underground drainage and street lights. The British Empire completely destroyed it in 1897 because they refused to be ruled by Britain.
bvJQ TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
YpVYZ TIL that Yakutsk, in the Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, is widely identified as the world’s coldest city. Winter temperatures regularly fall to -40°F (-40°C) and the lowest ever recorded was a staggering -83°F (-63.89°C)
9w4DM TIL ~ About Unit 100 who's main purpose was to research diseases from animals during WW2
6EXWl TIL that there is a project called the innocence project aiming to revoke wrongful convictions through DNA tests. They have recently exonerated a man who spent 36 years in prison for a crime he did not commit