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TIL during a screening of "A Fish Called Wanda," Danish audiologist Ole Bentzen died from heart fibrillation, caused by an increased heart rate due to extended laughter. Newspapers reported he died laughing. Writer John Cleese considered using it for publicity but ultimately deemed it inappropriate.

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MQX0 TIL the US signed a treaty in 1977 banning the use of weather modification techniques for warfare.
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eK44 TIL Robert Erskine Childers, an Irish Nationalist who smuggled guns into Ireland during their civil war and was sentenced to death, shook hands with the firing squad members and told them when they were about to shoot “Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way.”
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