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TIL that when someone was trapped with other skiers in an Avalanche that part of what saved them was when that person recited every line to The Princess Bride to keep everyone helpfully occupied.

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68lX TIL vehicle clocks gain time by overcompensating for start-up time power failures on ignition, resulting in cumulatively inaccurate time keeping.
woeyE TIL the origins of the dollar sign ($) are unknown
XELR TIL that in 1961, only 10% of physicians thought it was correct to tell a patient about a fatal cancer diagnosis
x6XW7 TIL that the snake Pareas iwasakii, which feeds only on snails, has the particularity of attacking only those whose shells are oriented to the right because of asymmetric jaws, favoring de facto those whose shells are oriented in the other direction.
a59A TIL there is a stretch of highway in British Columbia that is nicknamed the “Highway of Tears” for its long history of murders and disappearance of predominantly aboriginal women