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0bgM TIL in terms of health, rich Americans are no better off than poor Britons.
WkGoX TIL that a Russian airliner pilot let his 15 year old son fly the Airbus A310 setting off a chain of events in which resulted in the crashing of Aeroflot Flight 593 killing 75.
ly8A TIL that in West Virginia, Asian-American women make an average of $1.12 for every $1.00 a white male makes, a full 28 cents more than the national average.
wolJW TIL the doctor who treated the U.S. president James A. Garfield after his shooting in 1881 was named Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss, a doctor whose first name was actually "Doctor"
5Yjmr TIL about "three-quarter siblings": siblings who are genetically half way between full siblings and half siblings. This happens if they share the same father but different mothers who are sisters, or the same mother but different fathers who are brothers.