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TIL the most sadistic word in the English language: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

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5VPGr TIL a 79 year old woman at a dodgers baseball game in 2018 was killed when struck by a foul ball in the cheek
rKZx TIL paper can be recycled six times. After that, the fibres are too weak to hold together.
XZgD TIL Gandhi refused treatment of his dying wife with antibiotics that would have saved her on religious grounds and then took quinine 6 weeks later to stave off malaria
WAJA TIL that a dog that chased away a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and saved the lives of 50 US soldiers was accidently euthanized in a dog shelter in Arizona.
o94L TIL That spicy foods make us want alcoholic beverages. Spicy food lovers are also more likely to be alcoholics.