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TIL that more than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year around the world from using equipment meant for right-handed people. The right-handed power saw is the most deadly item.

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v1PoR TIL ex-president James A. Garfield contributed to an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
1abwP TIL of the 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard. Unseasonably warm temperatures of 65°F in mid-November were followed by one of the worst blizzards in Midwest history which created drifts more than 20 feet high. The blizzard ultimately killed more than 150 people and allegedly 1.5 million turkeys.
nAWY TIL United Airlines denied 3.5 billion dollars worth of employee pension
KOVNJ TIL about the Mary River punk-haired turtle
kVve TIL there’s a fourth “wise monkey” Do No Evil that covers his nuts