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TIL: Of a fire that has been burning continuously in Rainham, UK for 10 years exposing residents to toxic fumes

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lod9a TIL about Benford's law: if you take natural sets of numbers (like lenghts of rivers, population of cities, financial transactions..), probability of first number is not even. There is 30% probability for number to start with 1, and only to 5% for 9. It is so reliable it is used to defect fraud!
m1JAx TIL the International Court of Justice could not conclusively decide whether a country may use nuclear weapons in self-defense if its survival is at stake.
b9VvE TIL that Cheap Trick has performed live more than 3,700 times.
jNeKQ TIL The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook
NKJM TIL: The oldest known medical text is a book about vaginas.