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TIL obese drivers are 80 percent more likely to die in a car accident than drivers who are not overweight

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VMGV0 TIL that Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was so obsessed with his former lover Alma Mahler, widow of composer Gustav, that in 1918 he commissioned a life-sized fetish doll that he wished to 'embrace'. He was dissatisfied with the doll but did several paintings of it. Eventually, he beheaded it.
Z8elY TIL: Like all male Swiss citizens, Roger Federer was subject to compulsory military service in the Swiss Armed Forces. However, he was ruled "unsuitable" due to an unspecified injury. Instead he served in the civil protection force & was required to pay 3% of his taxable income as an alternative.
jNXWn TIL Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet have been translated into Klingon.
Ojl4 TIL a company will fake your job references, or even your former company
GZV7 TIL Mike Myers gave a sick Freddie Mercury the tape of the Bohemian Rhapsody scene from Wayne’s World. Freddie loved it.