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TIL Florida outlawed recreational dwarf tossing in 1989.

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mY1v TIL that suicide is the leading cause of death for people under 30 in Japan.
V5R8 TIL that in 2013, California shut down an elder care facility but didn’t relocate the residents before the owners stopped operations. The janitor and cook stayed behind, unpaid, to give around-the-clock care to 16 patients for two days.
AnRd TIL: Chloroform takes up to 5 minutes of constant inhalation in order to cause someone to lose consciousness. Counter to what movies and TV want you to believe.
wLx88 TIL that Beethoven was metal af. His 5th symphony is usually played as slow as 74 BPM, but he intended it to be played at 108 BPM. He wanted his music to make the musicians and audience uncomfortable - as if "something is impending," like "this is dangerous." (Basically one of the first metalheads)
RGm4 TIL that when Napoleon returned to France from Elba, he approached some of the first troops sent to arrest him and opened his coat, “If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am.” They joined him instead.