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TIL that your chances of upward social mobility in the USA are the smallest in the Deep South.

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78eZP TIL point Nemo, the most remote location on earth, is a space debris grave yard. satellites, rocket parts and space stations are sent here when they crash down to earth.
KOlxQ TIL of Harry Daghlian, a 24 year-old physicist with the Manhattan Project. He accidentally dropped a brick into the centre of a plutonium core and exposed himself to a lethal dose of radiation, dying 25 days after the accident.
X05xX TIL: how they do the scale for murals
5Y9ek TIL Lizzie Borden, who is famous for killing her Father and Stepmother with an axe, was actually acquitted of all charges.
kOn04 TIL in 2005, Dr. Phil offered to help find missing American teenager Natalee Holloway who went missing in Aruba. He released an undercover interview with one of the suspects in which he confessed participating in her murder. The video was proven to be heavily edited and completely misleading.