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TIL that 150,000 people die everyday

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W76M4 TIL about Capitan Ricky Robin, a shrimper who rode out Hurricane Katrina on the shrimp trawler that he built in high school shop class, only to rescue people who were flooded out of their homes, floating on whatever debris they could cling to, for days after the storm until the waters receded.
WkYQd TIL a Polish writer, Krystian Bala, wrote a fictional novel where he details a murder much similar to the one he’d committed 3 years ago. This novel played a huge part in solving that murder and he was later sentenced to jail for 25 years.
1aYvD TIL there are good reasons for the use of phrases such as "trust your gut" and "gut instinct", as supported by "gut-brain axis" research
MePv7 TIL in the past, compressed blocks of dried tea were used as currency
1aMmW TIL McDonald's had an offer to give away free big Mac's, French fries and drinks through scratch cards with every medal that USA wins during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. They lost millions of dollars because USSR and it's allies boycotted the event and USA unexpectedly topped the table.