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TIL the US Life Expectancy has been in continual decline after 2019

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neExb TIL Despite the myth that has been circulating for decades, fish do feel pain and do show the capacity to suffer from it.
16JD4 TIL Men and women have different hearts and sex mismatch of transplants leads to higher death rates. Although males' bodies are more likely to reject female hearts, both sexes show 10% increased mortality when receiving a transplanted heart from someone of the opposite sex.
AdKn TIL Estonian ID cards have a chip with public-private key pair used to sign documents and vote in elections via the internet. For their 2011 election, 24% of the votes were cast online.
N7Dp8 TIL if you own a pig and live in France, it's illegal to name it Napoleon.
bodE TIL that NASA did not actually spend $12 billion on a Space Pen while the Russians used a pencil.