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TIL life expectancy in the US has declined for two years in a row. The last time it fell two years in a row was 1962-63.

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yVG5w TIL that Python (the language) is named after Monty Python's Flying Circus and that skit references are highly encouraged in documentation.
rRewx TIL A wild turkey named Turk Diggler likely escaped an agricultural event and has been meandering through neighborhoods for the past year in Calgary, Alberta much to the residents' delight.
M7jKa TIL Julian of Norwich was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress
MeBva TIL Paris's first Tex-Mex restaurant opened in 1983. Business was slow, but the 1986 film Betty Blue, had characters drinking tequila shots and eating chili con carne, made the food popular. Benayoun said, "after the movie came out, everybody in Paris wanted a shot of tequila and a bowl of chili."
Zp0Vo TIL that the founder of Chili's restaurant chain, Larry Levine, was inspired to open a restaurant that served chili and burgers and had the friendly environment of the chili cookoffs his Father in-law hosted. His FIL was famed racing driver and performance car constructor, Carroll Shelby.