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TIL that Diarrhea killed approximately as many people as HIV and AIDS in 2012

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e010J TIL of Project Normandy, a secret plan by the Church of Scientology to take over the city of Clearwater, Florida, by infiltrating government offices and media centers.
wL1rW TIL in the 1930s, bridge construction projects expected one fatality for every $1 million in cost. So, the Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge enacted the most stringent safety measures in history. He even formulated diets to help fight dizziness and sauerkraut juice “cures” for hangovers.
Oog8R TIL Of all the versions of Tetris, Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov considers the Game Boy version his favorite, as it's the one that's closest to his original concept.
Z8QnR TIL Studies have concluded that all mammals get about a billion heartbeats per lifetime. They can use them at a rate of 1,000 per minute, like the shrew, or space them out into slow, ponderous beats, over many years, as is the case for the Grey whale.
A7nw TIL that the solution of the Monty Hall problem (that asks to pick one of three doors to win a car, the picked door remains closed and the third one opens, then asks if you want to switch or not) is so counterintuitive that mathematician Paul Erdos was unconvinced until he saw a simulation of it