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TIL that Keith Caputo, lead singer of hardcore band Life Of Agony is now a woman

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Wmdd TIL that patients of doctors who graduated from international medical schools had significantly lower mortality rates than patients cared for by doctors who graduated from U.S. medical schools
GdmG TIL Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid a conflict of interest during his presidency.
WkelN TIL there are only two organs with 64′ pipes (stops) in the world. The lowest note of these stops has a frequency of 8 Hz, which humans can just feel, not hear.
70pP TIL in 1959, a segregationist school board shuttered its district rather than allow black students; whites took school vouchers and attended a local private academy (which did not integrate until 1986)
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