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TIL 27% of Americans 18 and older have cut off contact with a family member

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D7dY TIL: That a British Man rescued 669 children destine for death camps from Nazis, arranged for them to have homes and smuggled them to Britain, and at 104 he is still alive today.
wLNDE TIL to call someone a monitor lizard in thailand is one of the worst insults or curses in the thai language. so much that people have been killed over it and a politician who called protesters this made front page news. it's so offensive its basically banned in broadcast media.
MeoGa TIL Artie Lange was paid $140k in one night to perform two shows at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas during Super Bowl week 2007, his highest paid stand up gig at that point. After gambling, hookers, and drugs, he spent $145k that trip.
xv4w TIL that certain medals at the 2014 winter Olympics will contain fragments of the meteorite which hit Russia.
woXAE TIL that a rat's jaws are built like an alligator's, and they can exert up to 7,000 pounds of force per square inch, meaning they can quickly bite down to the human bone.