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TIL 60% of Jamaicans would prefer to become a British territory again

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0wB0R TIL that Alaska has the highest rate of serial killings at just over 7 per 100,000 people, while California has the highest number of serial killings overall, totaling 1,628 people.
x6rb0 TIL that samples from asteroid Bennu, returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, contain molecular precursors to life, including all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, suggesting asteroids may have contributed essential elements for life on Earth!
va78 TIL - In a study, video gamers (WOW) were found to be more productive workers than non-gamers
d86LK TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden's height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden's corpse
l7dJa TIL about the the Lobster War, when Brazil declared war on France for illegally catching lobsters off its shores.