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TIL that the US has more ICU beds per capita than any other country

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XEwBQ TIL 8-yr-old Saga Vanecek found a 1,500-yr-old sword when wading in a lake in Sweden. She pointed it up to the sky and called out, “Daddy, I’ve found a sword!” She was bummed when her dad made her give the sword to the local museum and said she was raising money to make a sword replica for herself.
9drQ TIL Abraham Lincoln was reported to be “fond of dumb animals, especially cats.”
Oojl1 TIL A West Virginia prison charges prisoners 3-5c per minute to read books on tablets despite prisoners making 4-58c per hour.
J1YEV TIL despite initially targeting the youth, 49.3% of the audience of Japanese hit "Your Name" were people of older generations
dbZ7 TIL that China employs mobile “death vans” to carry out its executions, of these 65% result in harvested organs.