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TIL Priests Can’t Report Confessions, Even if It's a Murder

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LxPm TIL: Of the existence of musical roads, which when driven over causes a tactile vibration and audible rumbling transmitted through the wheels into the car body in the form of a musical tune.
9YAl7 TIL that vending machines, champagne corks, coconuts, and elephants all kill more people a year than sharks.
p5KA TIL Mao Zedong killed 4.5x more people than Hitler did
XEPR TIL- There is a disease nicknamed Ondine’s Curse which causes sufferers to die if they fall asleep.
P1ryG TIL that Arnold Machin, whose 1960s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has appeared some 320 billion times on coins and stamps, once chained himself to a Victorian lamp-post in protest at its removal. His wife freed him, and both the lamp and his royal likeness still endure.