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

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gMjOb TIL there is a GeoCache on the International Space Station.
QadX TIL Barry Manilow did not write his hit song “I Write the Songs”
j96Q TIL in 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people while police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all
wo5wo TIL Eric Clapton grew up thinking his mother was his sister, his grandmother was his mother, and his step-grandfather was his father
oRlyY TIL about the Symbionese Liberation Army, a militant far left organization which had 6 members killed in a shootout with the LAPD in 1974. They also murdered 2, citizens, robbed banks, and kidnapped people all in the name of freedom.