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TIL There is a boiling river in Peru that kills everything that falls into it

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xVVmo TIL civil rights activist Effa Manley is the lone female member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
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QJGZp TIL Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, died in 455 BC after an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head, mistaking his head for a rock (some eagles kill tortoises this way, breaking them open). Aeschylus was spending most of his time outside to avoid a prophecy that he would die from a falling object.
0dPxN TIL That the average height of the Danish national handball Olympic gold winning team is 195 cm or 6'4"
gMMv7 TIL about a pizza delivery man that was kidnapped and forced to rob a bank while wearing an explosive collar. It blew it.