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TIL skin cancer is 20 times more common in white people than black people

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we6M TIL that Trey Parker stated that Mr. Mackey is based off his old school counselor Mr. Lackey. On South Park season 1 commentary Trey said “[Mr. Lackey used to say], ‘Trey, quit fooling around and get back to your school work, m'kay’ 'but, now, I’m making millions out of him’ ”
mKAo TIL the US Department of Transportation considers the value of a statistical life at $9.1 million dollars.
QJYMX TIL that Star Trek: The Next Generation was to include dolphins and whales as crewmembers but the idea proved too expensive to film and was stopped except for mentions of Cetacean Operations.
xVlxk TIL our Sun orbits around the galaxy's center with a period of approx. 200 million years. We were last at our relative position in the galaxy around the time of the dinosaurs. In the entirety of modern man's existence, we have completed 0.1% of a circuit.
ykxp TIL there are over 5000 companies over 200 years old, most located in Japan and Germany. The oldest in the world is Kongō Gumi, a construction company in Japan, which has been around since the year 578 AD.