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TIL that in the US men make up 92% of workplace deaths

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LpGZ TIL that within 3 years of TV catching on in Fiji in 1995, over 11% of girls reported purging to lose weight in a country previously free of eating disorders
d8EkB TIL about the Kowloon Walled City, a completely ungoverned settlement in the middle of Hong Kong. It was the most dense settlement in history, and was built entirely by hand.
JYWwQ TIL that after leaving NWA, founding member DJ Arabian Prince went on to work as a video game programmer and a visual effects artist for the original Power Rangers TV show.
R5BLj TIL in some countries in Europe including the UK, they have to pay for a TV license
KYoGa TIL a six-year-old named Elaine Esposito went to the hospital for a routine appendectomy. She went under general anesthetic and never came out. Dubbed "The Sleeping Beauty" Esposito stayed in a coma for 37 years and 111 days before succumbing in 1978. The longest-ever coma.