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TIL that Jimi Heselden, the owner the Segway Company died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his home in Yorkshire, England.

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ep615 TIL a researcher studying the 'Club 27' myth found that the most common age of death for musicians is 56, not 27. Among 11,054 musicians who died between 1950 and 2010, 1.3% died at age 27. Also, more musicians died at 28 than 27, and those who died young were more likely to belong to a newer genre.
kJWl5 TIL that in Australia, the median maternal age at childbirth reached a 90-year low of 25.4 years in 1971, steadily rising ever since - by 2022, the parental age gap narrowed to its smallest range, dropping below an average 2-year difference, for the first time in half a century.
Yp8YZ TIL Polished Anus Syndrome (Perianal Dermatitis) affects around 5% of the US population. It is caused by wiping too hard with dry toilet paper.
W70dX TIL that the Mormon (LDS) church is the largest landowner in the states of Florida and Illinois.
XjeP TIL after being forced to resign as CEO, Steve Madden was kept by his former company as a consultant with a $700,000 salary which he received while in prison