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TIL that there is a garden in England devoted entirely to plants that can kill. The creator, the Duchess of Northumberland, felt that people ‘would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be’.

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616m TIL the very first reported death caused by video game was in 1982 - a 18 year old played the arcade classic Berzerk, made it to the Top Ten list twice in one sitting - and then collapsed and died from a heart attack after putting another quarter in the machine
x65jo TIL that the Soviet space probe Phobos-2, , designed to explore Mars' moons, failed because 2 of its 3 computers died, and since it used a system where the computers voted on any decision, the 1 healthy computer was unable to outvote 2 dead computers
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