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TIL Before 'Cat in the Hat,' Dr. Seuss drew cartoons to fight America First, racism and fascism

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1a8bd TIL over 36,000 people a year die in the US alone from car accidents
0onM TIL: Plant seeds “know” to grow upwards by sensing gravity. When planted in a spinning wheel, their roots will be tricked by the centrifugal force and grow outwards from the soil
GAR04 TIL Siblings separated at birth end up just as similar as siblings reared together (height, weight, IQ, academic performance, general cognitive ability). Parenting account for close to 0% of the variation (although abusive parenting is known to cause problems).
wLwKo TIL that 93% of people who ever existed on this planet are now dead ,and about 50% of them were kiled by malaria.
grl64 TIL 850,000 people were tried in court for taking part in the Rwandan genocide, the last case ended in 2012