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TIL Vending machines kill more people per year than sharks. Vending machines kill an average of 13 people a year, sharks 5.

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oYjA TIL that Alan Greenspan once tried to have his dissertation banned from New York University. When a copy was obtained by Barron’s, it was found to be “a discussion of soaring housing prices and their effect on consumer spending; it even anticipates a bursting housing bubble.”
oRkeK TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp.
R8aa TIL that a 19 year old garbage man won 14 million in the British Lottery in 2002, spent it all on gambling drugs and prostitutes. He is now a garbage man again.
58xR TIL that the syndrome of sneezing when under the sun is called ACHOO (Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome) (or just photic sneeze reflex)
gM568 TIL that some farmers in Bangladesh are now raising ducks instead of chicken because ducks can float during floods.