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TIL that sentences with the sole purpose of annoying the reader exist and are called "garden path sentences". They make you go back and read the sentence again, an example is: "The old man the boat"

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KdGE TIL that there are at least 11 extinct animal species which were photographed before their extinction.
DQBBY TIL that the Northern Mockingbird can mimic the calls of over 25 other bird species
78M9Z TIL that the "deadly" Sydney Funnel-Web Spiders have failed to kill a single person since an antivenom was developed in 1981.
edbD TIL that the Goiânia accident, “one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters” according to TIME, occurred when thieves stole a radiation capsule from an abandoned hospital because the guard took the day off to see ‘Herbie Goes Bananas’ with his family.
epdbg TIL a 20 year old man ended his life after thinking he lost $750,000 on an options bet on the stock trading app Robinhood.