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TIL during the 2008 Great Recession, overall mortality rates actually went down.

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b9nA7 TIL the Kinsey Reports on sexual behavior, considered to be among the most influential scientific books of the 20th century, were widely criticized for anonymously interviewing child molesters. Alfred Kinsey responded by saying it was necessary in order to solicit "honest answers on taboo subjects"
kOvk5 TIL that despite the name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs because they always have an odd number of leg pairs
81DK TIL there were 1,466 private jet crashes in 2011, resulting in 263 fatalities. The global accident rate for corporate jets is only 1/6th that for owner-operated private jets.
d84rK TIL of Mary Jane Rathbun, an elderly hospital volunteer who became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to San Francisco AIDS patients in the 1980's.
1aDx7 TIL of the Nightingale Pledge, a modified Hippocratic Oath named in honor of Florence Nightingale, US nurses take at their graduation ceremony