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TIL motorcyclists are almost 30X more likely to die than other motorists

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XXrX TIL of Dr. Hawley Crippen, an unfaithful husband who was executed in 1910 for the murder of his wife Cora, after parts of a decomposed body were found in his cellar. Crippen claimed she had left him for another man and moved away. In 2007, DNA evidence indicated that the body was not Cora’s.
mx8Jp TIL of the law of urination, it states that all mammals take roughly 21 seconds to empty their bladders regardless of size
lo4ON TIL: Carrie, Stephen King's first novel that launched his career, was rescued from the trash can after his wife Tabatha removed the crumpled up pages, read them and told her husband she wanted to know the rest of the story
9wOnX TIL Nintendo partnered with the Minnesota State Lottery to develop an expansion for the NES console that allowed people to buy lotto tickets from their home.
4v16 TIL for Yao Ming’s first game in Miami in 2002, the Heat gave out 8,000 fortune cookies as a promotion for the game. Yao did not take offense because he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and assumed it was an American invention.