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TIL people diagnosed with ADHD have an 8.4 year lower life expectancy

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D1dQY TIL container ships lose 2,000 to 10,000 containers at sea each year.
VRG8 TIL of Thiess of Kaltenbrun, a man accused of being a werewolf, who escaped death by fire in 1692 by claiming that he was sent by God to fight the devil and his witches
grX0D TIL: The state of California maintains a system of floating restrooms to keep boaters and fishermen from peeing in reservoirs
NANJ TIL that Haitian leader François Duvalier won a blatantly rigged presidential election in 1961 (with all votes cast for him), after which he declared: “I accept the people’s will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.”
ZpxZo TIL: There is one point on the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales where the temperatures in degrees are equal. This is -40 °C and -40 °F