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TIL over 86,000 people visit the ER each year from tripping or falling over their cat or dog.

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WNpY TIL that chocolate as we know it may run out in 2020 due to worldwide shortage of cocoa
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xVMab TIL about ‘death by misadventure’. In the UK this means a manner (not cause) of death attributed to risks undertaken voluntarily. Amy Winehouse is amongst the people who have died in this way.
YppD7 TIL of Mt Elbert and Mt Massive, the tallest mountains in Colorado and so close in height, people keep building rock piles on one or the other to make it the tallest.
VMk7m TIL That sprinkling granulated sugar on a prolapsed rectum is a certified medical procedure putting that thing back where it came from (to be precise, it helps absorbs the moisture).