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9YM8p TIL Alabama has a higher human development index than Italy - if Alabama were a country it would rank as 28th most developed in the world, contrary to its reputation as an undeveloped region of the United States.
R4l8 TIL San Francisco Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Briggs has talked approximately 200 people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge sine 1994
4XWEw TIL about The Hole, New York City, a small and low lying neighbourhood that is very (very) run down and suffers from frequent flooding. The mafia used to dispose of bodies there.
nWGeb TIL of Mariya Oktyabrskaya. When her soldier husband was killed in 1941, she sold her possessions, bought a T34 tank nicknamed The Fighting Girlfriend and relentlessly fought Nazis. When the vehicle took a hit, and despite orders, Maria jumped out of the tank to fix it under enemy fire.
xVKvB TIL Today I learned there is a real national Dodgeball league and that they hold their championship in Las Vegas just like in the movie Dodgeball a true underdog story.