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TIL a viking ship made out of 15 million popsicle sticks sailed from the Netherlands to England

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M71MA TIL media reporting of suicides is carefully regulated as it can trigger more suicides. For example, in Taiwan, reports of charcoal-burning suicides were associated with a 16% increase in suicides by the same method the following day with no corresponding decrease in other methods of suicide.
VMJ1Z TIL deers kill more americans than sharks, bears, and gators combined
e0EN6 TIL Two headed dolphins are rare, but real.
nW8go TIL that beetles can secrete liquid known as Cantharidin, which can burn human skin.
Y7kvA TIL a 2nd century textbook on Roman law by the Roman jurist Gaius was considered to be lost until a manuscript of it was discovered in Verona in 1816.