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TIL that despite only making up .02% of the worlds population, Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes.

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9Y9e7 TIL Kevin Smith’s Dogma is unavailable to stream or purchase digitally and is out of print on home media.
XbRP TIL that Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve were good friends who attended Julliard together and that Robin paid many of Christopher’s medical bills after the equestrian accident.
VMPk0 TIL that airport runways at higher elevations need to be longer because the thin air at high elevations results in less lift on the aircraft
PYgnO TIL when Salvador Dali was exhumed 28 years after his death in 2017 for DNA tests, it was discovered that his famous “10 past 10” mustache still remained perfectly intact.
YpP7W TIL in May 1980, after blood tests found a significant portion of Love Canal residents suffered chromosome damage from toxic waste buried under their homes, homeowners, upset over lack of federal action, held two EPA officials hostage. This action spurred the federal Superfund program to be passed.