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TIL Report: US Life Expectancy Lowest in 25 Years

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YpYmZ TIL the first song sung by a computer was Daisy Bell (1892) in the year 1961.
VB0D0 TIL in the US less than half of murders are solved.
16vo7 TIL that in 1996 a woman by the name of Georgiana Doerschuck ran for President. Her entire campaign platform was on banning computers. She received a measly 140 votes in the New Hampshire Primary.
WPYN TIL Robin Williams came up with the idea to put Sid Meier’s name on his videogames
6n5m TIL that a Pillbug (Wood louce) isn’t an insect… but they are crustaceans. They are closer to a crab than a bug.