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TIL cancer associated with the 9/11 attacks has impacted 11x more people than died in the attacks

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x5D0 TIL Someone made a map of the U.S. with hypothetical borders for new states with equal populations to shed light on unequal voting representation in the Senate and Presidential Elections.
D1GjP TIL if global fertility rates keep dropping at their current rate, the human population will shrink and humanity may disappear within a few hundred years
5x88 TIL that contrary to popular belief, marijuana is NOT legal in Jamaica (except in Bob Marley’s mausoleum)
kRW4 TIL The original inventor of LEGO used to “spend the whole of every Wednesday in a different nursery school, sitting on the floor and playing with the children, to find out exactly what type of toys would be of the greatest interest to them.”
OG6Ng TIL Roscoe Conkling was the last person to turn down an appointment to the United States Supreme Court, doing so in 1882. Conklin had been a prominent lawyer and senator, who drafted the 14th Amendment. His reason for turning down the appointment was only, "reasons you would not fail to appreciate."