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TIL People with Blue eyes show the strongest association with alcohol dependency

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XEWgP TIL Kmart USA is down to its final 10 stores!
xV9y0 TIL about "The Thomas Edison of Finland", Eric Tigerstedt, who was awarded 71 patents between 1912 and 1924, including one in 1917 for a "pocket-size folding telephone". He was tragically killed in a car accident on April 20, 1924, rumoured to have been caused by a competitor.
J1791 TIL In 1979 Jamie Cap a 16 year old from New Jersey became a quadriplegic during a high school football game.
Z8OOB TIL David Lee Roth, former front man for the rock band Van Halen, became a state-licensed emergency medical technician in New York in 1997 and has been on over 200 individual rides as an EMT.
l47N TIL the Challenger astronauts did not perish during the explosion, but instead were most likely conscious during a 2-3 second freefall from an altitude of 65,000 feet before the intact crew cabin plunged into the Atlantic ocean going over 200 mph.