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TIL that Horses are the Most Common Animal to Kill People in Australia

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RLw6 TIL that infants have died from a ritual known as metzitzah b'peh (removing the foreskin of the penis and the Rabbi places his mouth briefly over the wound, sucking a small amount of blood out) because the Rabbi had herpes.
8aXV4 TIL that Crocodile Dundee was inspired by Ron Ansell, an Australian buffalo hunter & crocodile poacher. He sued Paul Hogan for profits of the films, but lost & was bitter about it for the rest of his life. He was killed in a police shootout on 8/3/99.
b9WXZ TIL that a LEGO Death Star built to the scale of a classic Minifigure would be 3.52 km in diameter, or 1066 stories high.
wLbmP TIL in an early draft of Lord of the Rings, Frodo was named Bingo Bolger-Baggins
XegQ TIL 2,000 year-old seeds were discovered in Israel around 1965 to be held in storage for the next 40 years. After they were planted, a tree that has been extinct for 1,800 years sprouted.