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TIL Drowning people almost never shout, thrash or wave for help. 10% of children who drown are supervised by adults who don't recognise the signs.

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ndXY TIL hamsters and gerbils are illegal in Australia
xVrBb TIL Las Vegas has the most major concerts per capita of all US cities, with 59 major concerts per 100k citizens between 2013 and 2018. The #2 city, Nashville, had only 15.4 major concerts per 100k citizens.
pkaN TIL Adolf Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler, died from breast cancer in 1909. In 1940 Adolf showed gratitude to their family doctor Eduard Bloch (who was Jewish) for treating his mother by allowing him to emigrate with his wife to the United States from Austria.
VZd4 TIL Texas is so expansive that El Paso, in the western corner of the state, is closer to San Diego, California than to Houston.
eyo5 TIL that in order to prove that the bacteria H. pylori could cause stomach ulcers, an Australian doctor named Barry J. Marshall drank a culture of H. pylori, developed an ulcer, and successfully treated it with antibiotics. He won a Nobel Prize for it in 2005.