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

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MePr7 TIL the Aztecs worshipped a god called Xipe Totec, meaning "Our Lord the Flayed One"; He is always portrayed draped in freshly flayed skin.
grV5y TIL about the Pittsburgh Agreement. In the wake of World War I, Czech and Slovak officials met in Pittsburgh, USA where they would sign a memorandum of understanding to form a new nation in Czechoslovakia
LvW9 TIL Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1995 was found on Pennsylvania Avenue, drunk, in his underwear and trying to hail a cab in order to find pizza
Ol8R TIL that at the 2012 International Shooting Grand Prix gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko of Kazakhstan had to listen to the entire parody of O’ Kazakhstan from Borat. The incident resulted from the wrong song being downloaded from YouTube at the last minute. Senior officials of Kazakhstan were furious
QVQM TIL that President Andrew Jackson told Vice President John Calhoun “If you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body” when South Carolina tried to nullify federal law in 1832.