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TIL Some places in the USA still receive mail deliveries via mules

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5VY8P TIL the word "hurricane" itself comes from the Taino Indigenous Caribbean word hurakán, meaning evil spirits of the wind.
ADMyB TIL that a team in Tanzania is training giant rats to spot Tuberculosis in human spit. The rats can test 100 samples in 10 to 20 minutes: a human with a microscope takes 4 days to test the same number. The same species is also used to detect landmines.
7rNWx TIL Grindadráp is a tradition of the Faroe Isalands. in Denmark, were they slaughtered 1,000 long-finned pilot whales a year.
NXGK6 TIL as of 2019, the richest 26 people in the world own as much assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.
DQYdr TIL you are four times more likely to survive a heart attack inside a hospital.