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TIL All 3 of Jimmy Carter's siblings died of pancreatic cancer as well as his father

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b9KYQ TIL the German peasents war (1524-1525) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe. It failed because of intense opposition from the aristocracy, who slaughtered up to 100,000 of the 300,000 poorly armed peasants and farmers
ADOE4 TIL Over 40 percent more women are now graduating college than men in the US
woDe1 TIL that Japan has more pets than children, and some companies offer pet bereavement leave. There are more cats and dogs in Japan than children under the age of 15, largely due to the country’s declining birth rate. Pets are often treated like family members, and the pet industry has grown to includ
QNdZp TIL that there is substantial research supporting the existence of “daddy issues”
OGBJR TIL about The Wire of Death, a lethal electric fence created by the German military to control the Dutch-Belgian Frontier after the occupation of Belgium during the First World War. Somewhere between 2-3k people died as a result of trying to make it past the fence.