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Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.

Read more ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

gdwX TIL the fork came to Italy before any other European country because of pasta
9edr TIL In Norway they publish their citizen’s annual tax returns online. If you accesses someone’s tax return, that person will receive a notification that someone’s checking on him.
yLXa TIL: Within a few years of retirement, the majority of NFL and NBA players are bankrupt or in severe financial distress.
ArR4 TIL that Martin Scorsese’s film Hugo was inspired by a real event, wherein an automaton donated to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute was restored to find that it could draw elaborate Illustrations and write poems.
8e8b4 TIL in 1997, Amy Tobey, an employee in charge of ball-park music at Fenway Park, played ‘Sweet Caroline’ during a Boston Red Sox game because someone she knew just had a baby named Caroline. It caught on with fans, and now many teams from different sports leagues play the song during home games.