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TIL A man ate 425 pennies containing over 1kg of Zinc and died due to gastrointestinal bacterial and fungal sepsis (infection).

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EgPa0 TIL Sarah Bradlee Fulton the "Mother of the Boston Tea Party" is credited with coming up with the idea that Tea Party participants wear Mohawk disguises to avoid detection from the British.
8Qbb TIL scottish scientists created a pizza that has 30% of your daily recommended nutrients. You can eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a complete day’s worth.
W7XQB TIL about a monument in Kyoto, Japan called Mimizuka (Ear Mound). Known as the city's least mentioned and most often avoided tourist attraction, it contains at least 68,000 noses severed during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).
M7bYA TIL that animals in the wild die from all kinds of things, from tuberculosis in sea lions to hepatitis in bear cubs (paragraph 5)
xVeK0 TIL that there are 7000 languages, and your cognitive language can vastly affect your skills as a human. For instance, some African languages use the direction they are heading (NSEW) as “hello” and literally have no word for left or right. These people stay oriented exponentially better than others