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TIL That Americans Are As Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture As by Terrorism

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16JK7 TIL for 50+ years, Australian children in the outback attended school via shortwave radio and sent homework via air mail due to the distance between homes. "Schools of the Air" were many children's first social experience outside their families; its quality equaled or surpassed traditional schools'.
nenGd TIL that in 1993, lawyer Garry Hoy attempted to show that the windows in a building were nearly unbreakable by running into one at full speed. The window was knocked out of its frame and Hoy fell with it to his death. However, the window did not break.
WWJ9 TIL that General Patton slapped shellshocked soldiers because he didn’t believe that PTSD was a real thing
1a1Vr TIL that the founder of Guinness World Records was assassinated by the IRA after offering £50,000 for information on several bombing suspects.
woe48 TIL An aphid gives birth to babies that already have their own babies formed inside them. They are clones of themselves – they don’t need to breed with a male. Over a whole summer a single aphid could give rise to 250 tons of aphids.