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TIL that the Vietnam draft lottery ended up not being truly random because the guy didn't mix the balls in the urn sufficiently

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1bEX TIL that Black gay men in America have the highest HIV rates in the developed world, and that by the age of 40, there is a 60% chance that they are infected with the virus.
lMlr TIL five year-old children who drink 4+ soda servings per day are 100% more aggressive on the whole than their peers who don’t drink any, according to a Columbia University study.
8ylb TIL that creating a Death Star would cost roughly $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that it would take about 833,000 years to build. It would also need a laser of 1,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms worth of matter to have enough energy to destroy a planet for each time it was fired.
6EdPW TIL that Nov. 2, 2000 was the last time all living humans were on earth at the same time. Ever since the ISS have been occupied continuously.
mV8R TIL Hitler had a Jewish doctor who didn’t charge Hitlers family due to their economic hardships. Hitler labeled his doctor as a “Noble Jew” and made sure the doctor wasn’t harmed during the Holocaust