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TIL that the youngest person to ever become pregnant and give birth was 5 years old.

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JLm TIL that early in Jim Carrey’s life, before he had become famous, both he and his family had to live in their Volkswagen van.
jbjn TIL the man who discovered the wreckage of the Titanic, Robert Ballard, got funding for his expedition by agreeing to help the US Navy find a couple of sunken nuclear submarines first
xb4B TIL In New York City, for the last half century, the price of a slice of pizza and that of a subway ride have been nearly exactly the same. And a rise in one predicts the other.
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ybDp TIL only 345 American deaths in the Spanish-American War were due to combat, 88% of all American deaths were due to disease. More than 62,000 people died from disease over the course of the war.