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TIL Despite having 1/10 the US population, more Canadians move to the United States per year than Americans move to Canada.

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N7KrJ TIL Junko Furuta was a 17-year-old girl when she was kidnapped, she went through hell for 44 days before death finally relieved her pain on January 4, 1989. Junko was tortured to an extent that in the end, she was unable to stand or even speak. Her killers are now living as free men
1jYd TIL The USA dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Thats about 3 bombs every hour for 24 hours a day…
OopLa TIL that per the 2012 census, West Virginia was the only US state to be a "net mortality society", where there were more deaths than births
ne5X7 TIL about the business of “Adversary Air Support” in which a contractor has their own fleet of fighter jets that fly against U.S. military fighter pilots, replicating aerial threats from potential enemy nations.
jmev TIL that in Japan, where “lifetime employment” contracts with large companies are widespread, employees who can’t be made redundant may be assigned tedious, meaningless work in a “banishment room” until they get bored enough to resign.