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TIL that most Canadians live south of Seattle

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KOD7E TIL A Brazilian actor playing Judas accidentally hanged himself in a stage production of The Passion of The Christ. He was strangled by his safety harness during Judas' suicide scene, and hung for 4 minutes before anyone realised something had gone wrong.
a8A7L TIL that making lifestyle, and dietary changes, such as drinking more water, regulating sodium intake, etc. do help in regulating blood pressure
b6Yd0 TIL more than 100 Greenlandic inuit women have reported getting birth control involuntarily
6EDYY TIL only 1% of DNA is for protein-coding genes, the rest 99% is non-coding and was once thought to be junk. Later studies found that it can't be that such a huge chunk is just "packaging material" and it is starting to become clear that it has many uses, mainly as a regulator of different sorts
wLY5M TIL of the Idiot Plot, defined by Roger Ebert, where a story is only happening because all of the characters involved are being idiots (not sharing key info, jumping to assumptions, etc)