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TIL in a 1973 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man saves his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, from falling to her death by shooting a web down to catch her… but the sudden deceleration breaks her neck and kills her.

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kOxl5 TIL the individual animal with the most human kills ever was a tiger from Northern India, which adjusted its hunting strategy to kill people after a tooth injury left it unable to hunt normal prey and was shot after an estimated 436 kills
9GMm TIL of the worst maritime disaster in US history. On April 27, 1865. 3 of the 4 boilers on the steamboat Sultana exploded, killing 1196 people. The boat was 1779 people over capacity. The disaster is mostly overlooked due to John Wilkes Booth being killed the previous day
QN4EX TIL - lab cells cultured from a dead woman weigh more than her (over millions of tons)
grKpX TIL that the Neobuthus factorio, a species of scorpion from the Buthidae family, was named by one of its researchers after the video game Factorio, which was created by the researcher's son.
D1VeY TIL the Kübler-Ross "Five Stages of Grief" model originated from her work with terminally ill patients grieving their own deaths