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TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

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vkGx TIL the United States almost adopted the Metric System in 1794. Frenchman Joseph Dombey was en route to America to present the prototypes of a Meter and a Kilogram to the US Congress but his ship got hit by a storm and he got stranded in the Carribean where he died in a British prison.
N78Yb TIL that there is a town in Canada named Dildo.
EglJP TIL the same cinematographer that worked on iconic films Metropolis (1927) and Dracula (1931) also worked on I Love Lucy (1951). Karl Freund was born in Austria-Hungary in 1890 and pioneered the Unchained Camera Technique in Germany before coming to the US in 1929. He died in 1969.
loXyG TIL flags are flown at half-mast because the invisible flag of death is flying at the top.
kO1Xm TIL Soundcloud was blocked in Turkey in 2014 because a user “haramzadeler” (“bastards” in Turkish) uploaded seven privately recored phonecalls between the now president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, politicians and businessmen, that revealed illegal activity and possible bribery.