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TIL More people are killed by hammers every year than by rifles.

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GaRN TIL That Cleopatra and Mark Antony formed their own drinking club in 41 B.C. and were known to take part in elaborate games and contests and to walk the streets of Alexandria in disguise, pranking the residents
QJ8Vk TIL in 1823, an eleven-year-old Liszt met the 53-year-old Beethoven who told Liszt that "It will be your destiny to bring joy and delight to many people and that is the greatest happiness one can achieve"
VM8y4 TIL that in 19th century England, if your corpse wasn’t claimed in a hospital or if you died in a place where you couldn’t be identified, you might have been sold to a school or hospital so doctors could practice anatomy. Some priests even sold bodies to gravediggers who sold them to hospitals.
N7Xk8 TIL Potato plants can grow fruit. They look like tiny green tomatoes and are poisonous.
R70W9 It’ll take LA as much as $6.4 billion to fortify itself against an impending increase in coastal flooding, with moves such as nourishing its beaches with extra sand and elevating its ports.