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TIL That Its A Lot Cheaper To House and Feed the Homeless Than To Leave Them On the Street

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dLyE TIL When the Beatles broke up in 1970, none of them had yet turned 30 years old.
v1p1R TIL of Alexis Carrel, a surgeon who pioneered vascular sutures after other doctors claimed the French president Sadi Carnot could not have been saved after being assassinated with a knife
rNOBW TIL every five seconds between lightning and thunder is about a mile of distance; it’s not true that each second between lightning and thunder means the storm is one mile away
4Xg6b TIL in 1961, Marvel introduced the Fantastic Four. They were considered unconventional at the time because they were flawed characters who squabbled, held grudges, and sought celebrity.
neEdd TIL some plants that relied on extinct animals to disperse their seeds now rely on rodents, who will bury them. The seeds travel further when other rodents steal them, and bury them again, and again, and again, etc.