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TIL if no one smoked health care costs would be SEVEN PERCENT higher! Smokers contribute to economy by dying earlier.

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looXA TIL as much as 25% of the US sex offender registry is filled with juveniles.
dDke7 TIL the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government was Mary Surratt, conspiring in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
LBJr TIL Chris Pratt worked as a coupon salesman and a daytime stripper before becoming homeless in Maui. Of the experience, Pratt said, “It’s a pretty awesome place to be homeless. We just drank and smoked weed and worked minimal hours, just enough to cover gas, food, and fishing supplies.”
kJZyW TIL that the teeth of the sea snail is the strongest biological material discovered to date
kJJam TIL that the first computer was a loom