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TIL you're statistically (in Canada at least) more likely to die in January than any other month in the year

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4VO6 TIL René Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was unable to hear a patient’s heart due to their “great degree of fatness”.
N7PR6 TIL The extremely rare Chorioactic fungus has a disjunct distribution: it is only found in a few forests in Japan and a few counties in Texas at roughly the same latitude. Its appearance gives it the name 'the Devil's Cigar' and then splits into a star shape as it matures. It is unique to its genus.
X0OBD TIL of Madam C. J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in America. Born in 1867, orphaned at 7 years old and widowed at 20, she made her fortune manufacturing cosmetics and hair care products
JwLm TIL that virtually no one in Europe seriously believed the Earth was flat before Columbus’ voyages–this view comes not from historical fact, but from a Washington Irving book
9kb6 TIL that by telling people about your “next big idea”, you lose all motivation to deliver it