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TIL that people in sunny tropical countries can be Vitamin D deficient

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W7XZN TIL when a library buys an ebook, they actually are only able to buy a licence to loan out that book for about 1-2 years, or until the book is loaned a few dozen times. They also are forced to pay several times what a normal consumer pays for an ebook
gM4x4 TIL in 2018, the US hit a record high of never-married adults. 35% of Americans ages 25 to 50 had never been married, compared to 9% in 1970.
5YMlP TIL that In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day conflict that cost thousands of lives and displaced thousands more in the aftermath of a Football game. The struggle is still remembered as the football war.
gAj7 TIL that the U.S. government produced 500,000 Purple Heart medals to prepare for the 1945 invasion of Japan. When the operation never took place, the medals were placed in storage and distributed. All military action since then (including Korea and Vietnam) still has not depleted the supply.
yQ5m8 TIL that in 1993, the Pantai Remis landslide occurred in Malaysia, where a massive tin mine collapsed, generating what one academic has described as “the best landslide video ever seen” despite the bad resolution.