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TIL At least four Marlboro Men actors have died of smoking-related diseases

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nweW TIL in 50 years and after transporting 10 billion passengers the Japanese Bullet train has had zero fatalities in collisions and derailements
p8KYG TIL that virgin ghosts are a figure in Korean folklore who are young women who died before marriage and cannot go to the afterlife. They can curse newlywed couples and can be gotten rid of by marrying them to an unmarried male ghost.
yYPl TIL there is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers pizzas to remote areas by plane, with no charge for delivery.
oRKwL TIL: stalking predators, whether mammals or birds, tend to have yellow or light-colored irises, whereas predators that run after their prey, and prey-species themselves, tend to be dark-eyed
LkJ0r TIL that the Grinch is green because Chuck Jones (the director of the TV special) rented a car that he thought was a very ugly shade of green. The Grinch is black and white in the original book.