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TIL the Pokéwalker, a toy step-counter bundled with the 2010 Nintendo DS games Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver is one of the most accurate step-counters ever made.

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xVXP1 Black women are three times more likely to die from complications of childbirth than white women in the U.S.
1aWNX TIL that when you get a sunburn, it's not your skin cells being damaged by the sun's UV rays and dying, it's your skin cells' DNA being damaged by the sun's UV rays making the cells kill themselves to prevent turning into cancer
PYZAe TIL in a car crash, the risk of death for a restrained driver or front-seat passenger is increased five-fold when the rear-seat passenger is unrestrained at the time of impact.
E1Npx TIL Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated products to Latin America and Asia in 1984.
OojgR TIL a man has been receiving delivery pizzas for 9 years and doesn't know who is sending them