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TIL In the U.S. 27% of children (0-18) are in poverty while 13% of the elderly (65+).

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neneb TIL John Snow, considered to be one of the fathers of the field of epidemiology, also pioneered the use of ether and chloroform as surgical anesthetics. Anesthesia was still considered an unethical practice, however, until Queen Victoria asked him to administer sedatives for one of her births.
wo58P TIL: there is a classic dutch Christmas song about a boy who kills his dad after his dad serves his pet rabbit for Christmas dinner.
Deg TIL Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden, has piloted the band’s Boeing 757 (“Ed Force One”) for two consecutive world tours.
RVa8 TIL Koreans call the platypus a “duck-raccoon”
neKYY TIL that in 1864, two ships were wrecked on the Auckland Islands at the same time and neither group were aware of the other. One group rescued themselves by sailing to New Zealand in a homemade ship; all five survived. The other group was rescued by a passing ship and only 3 out of 25 survived.