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TIL North Carolina has the 3rd highest euthanasia rate in the USA

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Kv74 TIL The Germans answer their phone by stating their surname. No “hello”. No “bueno”. No “moshi moshi”. Just [insert last name].
XElYP TIL Michael Burry's autism (Aspergers) enabled him to see patterns in the 2007 housing market data that helped him predict the coming crash. As the data worsened, Burry found that heavy metal music calmed his nerves, something research has more recently shown is ideal for his "Brain Type S."
KYjl4 TIL that the LCVP landing craft, famously used in the D-Day landings, was made out of plywood. It was originally designed as swamp boat for trappers, oil drillers and (allegedly) liquor smugglers.
ZpewG TIL Sinéad O’Connor's was a victim of the Catholic Church's Magdalene Laundries
mxarE TIL that there is an optical phenomena called Halo that's basically a colorful ring around things like the sun and the moon, and it's caused for an specifically type of cloud with a certain organization of its particles