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TIL There is a Large Spike in the Number of Traffic Accidents on Super Bowl Sunday

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9YEQp TIL the pirate 'Black Bart' believed Irish people to be some of the worst people to have on your crew due to them being highly mutinous. As a result, many people who Bart tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent so they could get out of it.
m1lwv TIL- For every 1 person living on earth, there are 15 dead people. Over 100 billion humans have been and gone before us.
loEQ1 TIL that “goodbye” derives from the 1570s saying “God be with ye.”
4XBVw TIL in 2007, a mother from California lost all three of her children in a car crash (Kyle, 5, Emma, 4, and Katie, 2). Six months later, she became pregnant with triplets: two girls and one boy, just like before.
78g17 TIL that chainsaws were originally invented for childbirth