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TIL that Japan’s deadliest animal is the Japanese giant hornet with around 30-40 annual fatalities, more than bear and snake deaths combined.

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d8yYZ TIL a day before Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, Jerry Ehman of Ohio State University detected an unusually strong signal from space. Instead of the typical random numbers, there was a stream 30 times louder than the background buzz of deep space. Ehman was so amazed he wrote the word "wow!"
plQ TIL Kurt Cobain stood up for a woman who was being groped at a Nirvana concert
16JLd TIL while filming the Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), the original plan for the ending was to have the characters sing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” It was later changed to “Aude Lang Syne.”
gMv1b TIL that Chicago was called "Swedens second biggest city" in the beginning of the 20th century, having the largest swedishborn population in the world after Stockholm.
XEEOX TIL that Florida lets you stay on your parents insurance until you are 30 as long as you are living with them (or a student), unmarried, and have no dependents of your own. Only six other states (IL, NJ, NY, PA, SD & WI) allow something like this.