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TIL that life expectancy in Cuba is higher than in the United States

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a8QgA TIL Martha Ballard (1735 – 1812) was an American midwife and diarist who recorded over 1,400 pages of daily life and births on the Maine frontier for 27 years. Her detailed diary offers rare insights into colonial women’s lives, family struggles, local crimes, and early American social customs.
xMjD TIL of “SLAM”, a cancelled nuclear ramjet missle that could carry up to 16 thermonuclear warheads, travel for months nonstop, spew radiation wherever it went, and flew at tree top levels, killing anyone it would fly over
DbJp TIL Christopher Wolfram (one of the people responsible for Wolfram Alpha) has helped creating the heptapod language we saw on the movie “The arrival”
gMgeD TIL There's a shark-infested golf course in Australia
g1b4 TIL The oldest woman alive in 2006 (125-year-old Fulla Nayak) claimed that Marijuana was her secret to long life.