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TIL Report: US Life Expectancy Lowest in 25 Years

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OoNPY TIL That English has a subtle stress pattern to identify the Noun or Verb in a related word. For example Record; Record (N) and Record ; Contract (N) and ConTract (V) ; Refuse (N) and Refuse.
KDV4 TIL that suburban neighborhoods were made to prevent people of being Communists. William Levitt, father of modern American suburbia declared: “No one who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
AOoo TIL if you pause a YouTube video, click outside the frame and type ‘1980’, you will be forced to fight off missiles!
kJGEg TIL that, despite belief it came out in 1991 alongside Sonic the Hedgehog 1, the Genesis, known as the Mega Drive outside of the USA, was actually released in 1989 in the USA.
mEWv TIL the scientific name of Llamas is ‘Lama Glama’