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TIL Horses killed more people in Australia in recent years than all venomous animals combined

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g7E8 TIL of Major Digby Tatham-Warter, who led a bayonet charge at the Battle of Arnhem while wearing a bowler hat and carrying an umbrella. He later used his umbrella to disable an armoured car.
lomea TIL that Key West was called Cayo Hueso (Bone Cay) by the Spanish because of all the human skeletons littering the isle
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