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TIL that 92 people have died from snakebites during religious ceremonies.

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p8Kg8 TIL that the use of Mustard Gas during WWI directly lead to the discovery of the first chemotherapy treatments for cancer.
VBr6Z TIL in the 1980s, the networked ICON computer was commissioned by the Ontario, Canada Ministry of Education. Nicknamed the "bionic beaver", it ran on a Unix-like OS and featured a trackball. Subject to political debate for wasting money with a niche ecosystem, it was orphaned by 1994 and destroyed.
yVNEw TIL a kilometer-sized asteroid that struck Earth 800,000 years ago has a crater that remains undiscovered
mxr5p Today I Learned We have no idea how smart Racoons are.
R5WAl TIL about underwater hockey, also known as Octopush, which is played by holding your breath in a 2 metre deep pool while manoeuvreing a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool using only one hand into the other team's goal with a mini hockey stick/pusher up to 25 metres away at the opposite end