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TIL Poverty Kills More People Every Year Than Either Of the Top Killers – Heart Disease or Cancer

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Z8JwY TIL In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.
5VoXB TIL Nutrition Labeling of food was not required until 1994 in the US, and was considered controversial at the time.
NXGB6 TIL glass is permeable for hydrogen ions, like a sieve
g5gX TIL one of the most successful interrogaters in Nazi Germany, Hanns Scharff, preferred freindliness over torture.
XEdDE TIL that playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare Ben Jonson avoided being hanged for killing a man in a duel by citing "Benefit of Clergy," as he could read the Bible in Latin.