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TIL distracted driving from Pokemon Go is estimated to have led to 145,000 car accidents, injuring 30,000, killing 256 & causing $2B+ in damages

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598D TIL During Bruce Lee’s second autopsy, his doctor tried to attribute his cause of death to Cannabis
9YGym TIL that the Judean Date Palm was extinct until scientists germinated 2,000 year old seeds to bring the tree back into existence. The seeds were discovered in an ancient jar in Israel, dated between 155 BC to 64 AD.
167JX TIL, The Dutch alphabet doesn't use letter Y, but uses the digraph of IJ in it's place.
XEQNQ TIL 1 out of every 2,000 residents in the United States are imprisoned for life, the highest rate in the world
jNQna TIL raccoons wash their food yo soften it because they don’t have saliva glands.