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TIL Ebola killed 0.1% of the population in Africa’s three most affected countries in 2014. The average person there is more likely to die in a traffic accident than by Ebola and almost nobody there wear seatbelts

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ANDwo TIL of the many uses of Spanish Moss by humans dating back over 3000 years.
e08b TIL A teenager named Bradley Wernham was single handedly responsible for an increase of 500 percent in crime in a town called Chelmsford. Wernham commited over 660 burglaries and thefts before finally getting caught.
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kJvnd TIL there are sound frequencies that can only be heard by teenagers and some stores use devices that emit these sounds to keep teenagers from loitering.