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TIL Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world

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jorE TIL Six years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while playing the organ at her church
E1bAp TIL That face blindness is a thing and it sounds like it would be hell to live with. Basically people with it can't use faces to tell people apart, so they have to use other characteristics to tell who is who.
opOK TIL the average US home receives 189 TV channels, yet consistently tune in to an avg. of just 17.
GAwA1 TIL in WW2 the Royal Air Force had "Committees of Adjustment," whose job was to destroy any embarrasing personal belongings of missing servicemen before handing their things over to the families. An early form of deleting your friend's browser history.
b9gX0 TIL that the World Health Organization recommends ash or sand as alternative to soap when it's not available