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TIL for every bird killed by a windmill around 1700 are killed by cars.

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BrKPd TIL about Cachy, an ironically named poodle who fell 13 floors and fatally hit an elderly woman, killing both instantly. Edith Sola went to help and was fatally hit by a bus. Meanwhile, a man who witnessed Edith's death, had a heart attack and also died.
M7O18 TIL about Marion Stokes a Philadelphia woman who compulsively recorded and stored over 40,000 VHS tapes of news broadcasts between 1979 and 2012
697Bm TIL "Trick or treating" only started in the 1930's in Canada and then spread to the US
W7GN8 TIL Tiny the Wonder was a dog that was famous in mid-1800s London for killing 200 rats in an hour
mx9xx TIL on December 28 1983, Dennis Wilson, co-founder and drummer of the Beach Boys, drowned at Marina Del Rey after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover his ex-wife's belongings, previously thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier amidst their divorce.