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TIL that in 2012, a man in Florida choked to death after participating in (and winning) a live-cockroach-eating contest

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Yp40A TIL about the huge luxury houseboat industry on the massive rice paddy network in Kerala India
QO7d TIL President Jefferson delayed a state dinner for the Tunisian ambassador until after sunset to accommodate the ambassador’s observance of the Ramadan fast, in 1805
Z89av TIL that computer science was actually promoted to women in the 1960s - on the premise that the planning and attention to detail involved in programming is akin to that of planning a dinner party.
b9ZQ4 TIL There was a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus who was responsible for the death of 6 people during his robbery and getaway. When he was caught and thrown in jail, nearly 2,000 people showed up, pushed past the guards, dragged him out of the jail and hanged him.
d84RQ TIL in 1974 Canada created the H0H 0H0 ("ho ho ho") postcode and started responding to children's previously undelivered letters. Now they answer 1mm letters per year, many of them originating from outside Canada, in the letter's native language.