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TIL Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world

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b9nKj TIL "You are a thief and a murderer: you have killed a baboon and stolen his face" was a common insult in the 18th century
W7MO9 TIL John Hawkins was the first Englishman to profit off of the triangle trade of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Harkins' journeys also brought the sweet potato and tobacco to England.
wpwY TIL that while abundant in the universe, Helium is a finite resource on Earth and cannot be manufactured. Its use in MRI’s means a shortage could seriously affect access to this life saving technology.
lpZG TIL that due to name confusion, staff at Slovakia and Slovenia meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
P1DMn TIL: Morocco is the only country in Africa to have a high-speed rail system and it opened in 2018.