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TIL The life expectancy in Cambodia dropped to 14 years in 1978.

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69dWJ TIL "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" is a song known as "Like the Wind" recorded from a radio broadcast in West Germany in the early 1980s. Despite extensive searching, the band behind the song remains completely unidentified.
WPk4 TIL when using iTunes you agree to not use it to make nuclear weapons.
w4GP TIL that mafia capo Gregory Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to help find the bodies of three civil rights workers. Scarpa got the locations of the bodies after he kidnapped a Klansman, pistol-whipped him and stuck a gun in his mouth
VB1E4 TIL the name of the shoe brand Asics is an acronym for a latin phrase meaning "a sound mind, in a sound body"
8e89X TIL that London Heathrow Airport has to scrape away 10,000 pounds of rubber every day, due to the tires skidding across the runway on landings.