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TIL that there are approx 140 ER visits a year in the from people ingesting strands of wire from BBQ grill brushes and that the consequences can be life threatening.

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7r07 TIL nearly 60% of American college students are female; every state but Utah has more women than men in college
nBQY TIL Einstein originally rejected the Big Bang theory, saying to its author “Your calculations are correct, but your physics is atrocious.”
GAPaE TIL In the first ever modern olympics, there were 169 Greek athletes and 14 American athletes. US still won more gold.
OoNr7 TIL that statistically conservatives tend to be happier than liberals, and this phenomenon spans across multiple countries and that this persist even after basic demographic factors have been controlled.
RNJ9 TIL the Irish Famine was effectively a genocide of the Irish people instigated by the British establishment. Even though the common Irish person was starving, tons of food were exported every day out of the country.