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TIL that vending machines are more deadly than sharks.

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DQpGp TIL that directors Wes Craven and Sam Raimi played a game of one-upmanship by depicting each other’s movies humorously in their own films. Beginning in The Evil Dead (1981), and continuing on through A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) and Scream (1996).
k4lB TIL that Japanese universities hold memorial services for animals that die in laboratory testing.
WlkA Today I Learned about Adam Rainer. At the age of 18 he was 4 feet tall. He then suffered from a pituitary tumor and grew to 7 feet 2 inches by age 32. He is the only person in history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
dDapQ TIL the "Bloody Mary" mirror ritual is related to the "strange-face illusion"
pY64p TIL that a group of owls is called a parliament of owls and a group of lemurs is called a conspiracy of lemurs