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TIL women on average actually get in more accidents per mile than men, but men are far more likely to be in fatal accidents

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9GEX TIL of a bar in New Mexico opened in 1896. At one point it was owned by a Justice of the Peace who held court there and jailed the guilty in the back. During prohibition, it ran as a pool hall with a secret trap door leading to the speakeasy in the basement. The Capitol Bar remains open to this day!
JY7RQ TIL during the filming of the Lord of the Rings, Christopher Lee (a WW2 veteran) corrected director Peter Jackson on the right noise a person who got stabbed in the back and die would make: it's not an "argh" scream, but an "uh" because "the breath is driven out of your body". (Video starts at 0:10)
Mdwm TIL Norway is the only national football team to beat Brazil and have never lost to them
00VA TIL that your 10,000th day of being alive occurs when you are 27 years, 4 months, and (depending on leap-year cycles), approx 2 weeks old.
XJnX TIL German scientist, Gerhard Domagk, developed the antibacterial agent Prontosil, a sulfonamide. He used this agent to treat his own daughter, preventing her from an arm amputation. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939.