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TIL that black widow bites have a ~1% death rate according to NIH in a case study of roughly 24.5k people who were bitten

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e0D4n TIL the movie Jack and Jill won an award in all 10 categories at the 32nd Golden Raspberry awards. This included Adam Sandler winning in BOTH worst actor and worst actress categories.
Xlxj TIL Learned helplessness is a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.
vPaGD TIL of Kyle Maynard, an American speaker, author and mixed martial arts athlete, known for becoming the first quadruple amputee to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of prosthetics.
rRa9x TIL Ralphie from A Christmas Story was an executive producer for Iron Man
rNMk1 TIL that the ISS will be retired by 2030 and that they will deorbit the whole station back to Earth.