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TIL More people have died falling off the monument to the great fire of london, than people did during the great fire itself.

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ADyvB TIL American muffins are actually individual "quickbreads" or oil cakes (like zucchini bread), making them essentially cupcakes. English muffins are griddled flatbreads, which is why they are chemically and nutritionally more similar to pita or pizza than to American muffins.
oMwL TIL Walt Disney bought his parents a house with a broken furnace which was inadequately fixed by Studio repairmen, causing his mother to die of asphyxiation
8LK4 TIL a student designed a tool that caught the government and various corporations / organizations editing Wikipedia articles to reflect better upon themselves.
nk1P TIL During World War I, before the traction splint was introduced, femur fractures had an 80% mortality rate. After the splint was introduced, the rate dropped to around 8%.
04Ry TIL that in New Zealand, names for children must be approved by the government before being legally registered. Despite this, names such as “Number 16 Bus Shelter”, “Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii” and “Violence” have been approved while “Yeah Detroit” and “Sex Fruit” have been rejected.