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TIL that slugs used to be used as lubricant on wheels
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TIL that humans have a 95% probability of going extinct (in 7,800,000 years) according to J. Richard Gott's evolutionary formulation
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TIL: The first black applicant to the then all white University of Mississippi was committed to an insane asylum for being crazy enough to apply (1958, Clennen King).
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TIL that in Japan when a death order has been issued, the condemned prisoner is informed in the morning of his/her execution.
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TIL the US is pretty much the only first world nation, without mandated paid holidays or vacation by the law
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TIL Max Brooks, author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, is Mel Brooks’ son.