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TIL Generation Y officially buys more books than baby boomers

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jZXj TIL: The loudest recorded sound from a human was produced by 48-year-old teaching assistant Jill Drake. When told she was the loudest person in the world, Jill explained “I knew I was loud, but not that loud.”
p8aYG TIL Murder rates in Miami, Florida were so high during the 1970s and 1980s that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office had to rent a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses
LQVvm TIL about the Gardner museum heist, the biggest art theft in history, still unsolved and with a $10 million dollar reward for information leading to arrests and recovery of the stolen art.
aw9RJ TIL Canada's new 10-dollar note features Viola Desmond, a black woman and civil rights activist from Nova Scotia. She is known as Canada's Rosa Parks for her refusal to leave a whites-only section of a theatre.
Oo06Y TIL Even though North and South America are physically attached, there is no road that connects the two continents.