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TIL Beetween N and 2N there is always a prime number

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yQgOJ TIL that Aboriginal Australians have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
wyM8 TIL that there is a correlation between losing a parent and achieving eminence in a profession, nearly 1/3 of US Presidents lost their father at a young age.
loM8N TIL just before Live Aid, Freddie Mercury was told by his doctor not to do the show because of some vocal trouble. He of course, ignored it, and went on to deliver a 20 minutes show that, according to a BBC poll, is the greatest live performance of all time.
GYBJG TIL That it is estimated that over 100 million trees are used annually to produce junk mail alone, and that 33% of all mail delivered is junk mail.
ADaoa TIL from 1986 to 2007, Russian cosmonauts carried a triple-barrelled Soviet pistol called the TP-82 on space missions. It was intended as a survival aid to be used after landings and before recovery in the Siberian wilderness and against wildlife, namely bears and wolves.