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TIL Author Kurt Vonnegut responded to a high school student’s letter with an “poetic assignment”

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pYEyQ TIL in United States, before the invention of mass produced typewriters, women was making up only 4% of the clerical workforce in 1874. This number rose to 75% by 1900.
WVo4 TIL Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana has a graduation rate of only 4%
LPKm TIL 1,140 people have been diagnosed with cancer as a result of “exposure to toxins at Ground Zero” from 9/11. Over 1,400 9/11 rescue workers who responded to the scene in the days and months after the attacks have since died.
R7nNj TIL If you're coming to work consistently sleep-deprived you're basically functioning drunk.
JYpv1 TIL the best tasting animal is the Kudu from South Africa; the worst is the common seagull.