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TIL Texas reserved the right to divide itself into five separate states

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l71N5 TIL that almost all of the buildings that collapsed in the Great Hanshin (Kobe) 1995 earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku (Fukushima) earthquake were built before the 1981 “shin-taishin”, or New Earthquake Resistant Building Standard Amendment, was enacted.
DQe5e TIL Coffee lowers risk of heart problems, early death, stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and prostate cancer.
X0ZlP TIL that the reason we think of Neanderthals as hunched over and primitive is because one of the first skeletons we found was 40 years old and had arthritis
N70J6 TIL that although it is only the third highest mountaintop in the world, no mountaineer has ever reached the summit of Kangchenjunga. This is because every ascent has deliberately stopped short of the peak, to honor a promise given to the local inhabitants that the top of the mountain remain intact.
G6eg TIL that a year after Ferris Bueller, Matthew Broderick was driving in Ireland and crossed into oncoming traffic causing the death of a mother and her daughter. He was charged with careless driving and fined $175.