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TIL: Cows kill 22 times more people a year than sharks.

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9BvM TIL that Walt Disney bought property in Florida to build a “real city that would never cease to be a blueprint of the future” but after he died, they built Disneyland instead.
J17yQ TIL The UK used to have Slam-door trains, passengers had to slam the doors closed when the train was about to depart. Some slam-door trains had doors that could only be opened from the outside, so passengers had to lean out of the window to reach the outside door handle
Z8vlv TIL The Man in the Iron Mask, a popular legend of movies, books, & media, was a real person who was imprisoned for 34 years in France and died in the Bastille in 1703. Although theories abound, no verifiable data can confirm his true identity or the crime he was sentenced for.
GYRbN TIL that, after the Norman Conquest of England, nobles referred to the meat they ate in French, but the peasants who raised animals for meat referred to them in Anglo-Saxon. This is why modern English has words such as beef and pork for meat, but cow and pig for the animals it comes from.
4XNdo TIL Tom Hanks is a distant cousin to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s mother. They are third cousins, 4 times removed.