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TIL that according to the Doomsday Clock, we are closer to Armageddon than at any point since the clock's invention in 1947.

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AD0Na TIL a teacher in South Carolina started a ‘Gentleman’s Club’ for more than 60 at-risk children to teach them important life lessons and social skills and support them so that they would grow up to become successful adults. He even provides donated jackets and ties to students who cannot afford them.
vY78 TIL that people with red hair need greater amounts of anesthetic than people of any other hair color. Also other studies show that women with naturally colored red hair require less painkillers.
0d99A TIL about the Candle Salad, a popular dish in the 1920 - 1950s in the US. Made from a banana, pineapple on a bed of lettuce, with mayo or cottage cheese and a cherry on top. In the 50s it was used to encourage kids to eat fruit.
yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
X0mQr TIL New Hampshire's Mount Washington is one of the most deadly hikes in the world.