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TIL that at least two people died from the “Ice Bucket Challenge”.

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GY6Kj TIL most of the deaths caused by tropical cyclones are not caused by the wind but by the storm surge.
kOrOg TIL that between 2014 and 2016 an Australian electrician bunked off work roughly 140 times to play golf, covering his tracks using a crisp packet as a Faraday cage to block an electronic tracker that would have pinpointed his location.
6E7nZ TIL 250 Union soldiers surrendered to the Confederates, enlisted in the Confederate Army while held as POWS, were recaptured by the Union Army, and then re-enlisted as Union soldiers. They were called Galvanized Yankees.
grOR4 TIL that the government of Imperial Japan persecuted Haiku poets in 1940-41, arresting 40 people of which two died from ill treatment during their incarceration.
dDXVK TIL that Dr. Pepper came out a year before Coca Cola