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TIL the average age people on the autism spectrum die is only 36

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9Y6nM TIL of the War Horse Memorial—a statue honoring the nearly one million horses mules, and donkeys that lost their lives during the First World War. The statue features a horse named Poppy who possesses a gaunt physique and barbed wire wrapped around its hooves.
pVe TIL that you would have to walk the full length of a football field just to burn off one plain M&M candy.
GAmWg TIL that whales and hippos are the closest relatives and had a common ancestor, who lived 50-60 million years ago.
aMR9 TIL: Over the past decade, at least two newborns have died after contracting herpes following an ancient circumcision ritual called ‘metzitzah b’peh’ in which the rabbi draws blood from the penis with his mouth.
wba6 TIL: Alaska’s oil tax credit program will pay more in corporate subsidies to small oil and gas companies than the state is forecast to collect in total oil production taxes.