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TIL Loneliness has the same effect on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

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LkNRQ TIL the USA annually uses more electricity on air conditioning than every African country combined uses on everything.
aJZb TIL that 3,278 Americans are serving life without parole for non-violent crimes, including petty crimes like shoplifting.
9YWV7 TIL that Tutankhamun’s successors tried to erase his name from history. This meant his memory was preserved as the location of his tomb was forgotten, hiding it from robbers. It remained virtually untouched for thousands of years until its discovery in 1922.
rRxyw TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, were given a signed photo of Saddam Hussein by American soldiers
QZxM TIL: That there is an alternate timeline comics series in which Bruce Wayne is killed prompting his now insane mother to become a female Joker and his father to become a much darker and more violent Batman.