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TIL that Zach Helm wrote Stranger Than Fiction and wrote and directed Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - They are so similar

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4Xkn6 TIL: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world?
x6oo5 TIL: The first city to honor the Twin Towers attacks with a monument was Lisbon
rNAgo TIL in 1864, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay teamed up to, in effect, almost wipe Paraguay off the face of the planet. In total, 60–70% of the population of Paraguay died as a result of the war, leaving a woman/man ratio of 4 to 1 (as high as 20 to 1, in the most devastated areas).
1axj4 TIL the UK's famous COBRA national emergency response committee is named after the room in which it meets - the Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
xyr1 TIL that some believe humans are the only animals with the ability to ask questions. Chimps that learned sign language can answer, but never ask questions. Responsorial singing (one person calls, group responds) might be the way humans started asking and answering questions.