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TIL extreme inequality contributes to 21,000 deaths each day

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dP7j TIL a 62% majority of Americans believe that JFK was killed in a conspiracy and that there was an official cover up.
em7n TIL The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous believed LSD could be used to cure alcoholics and credited the drug with helping his own recovery from often debilitating depression.
Oo5Q1 TIL that pilots departing from California's John Wayne Airport are required by law to cut their engines and pitch nose down shortly after takeoff for about 6 miles in order to reduce noise in the residential area below.
W41L TIL that there is a theory that there is only one electron in the universe.
4kNR6 TIL to end the Gulf War, the USAAF dropped howitzers on bunkers from supersonic fighters.