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TIL that life expectancy un the US differs by as much as 20 years or more between counties, with the disparity between highest and lowest rising between 1980 and 2014

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0wvaN TIL that Cobalt was named after Kobolds, the goblin like creatures said to inhabit mines.
8er7G TIL sharks existed before trees
rmrx TIL That in the early 1970s Chile experimented with a centralised computer network that would provide live economic data for “managing resources, detecting problems before they arise, and to experiment with economic policies”. It was destroyed when Pinichet’s regime took power before completion.
grmw9 TIL General Alexander Suvorov, a war criminal responsible for massacre of Praga in 1794, is a historical celebrity commemorated in Switzerland
pOw4 TIL Walt Disney’s staff once presented him with a cartoon on his birthday depicting Snow White having sex with the seven dwarfs. Disney applauded at the film’s ingenuity and casually wondered who was responsible. When the blushing illustrators identified themselves, Disney fired them.