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TIL In 2012, men accounted for 92% of workplace deaths despite only making up 57% of the workforce.

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m1ZpY TIL Monty Python reunion shows typically included an urn said to contain the ashes of Graham Chapman. During one such show in 1998, the urn was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the ashes on stage, which were then vacuumed up with a DustBuster.
8avLG TIL Monty Python's Life of Brian was banned in Norway and subsequently marketed in Sweden as "The film so funny that it was banned in Norway"
oBLER TIL Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes franchise, once investigated a real murder and helped to exonerate an innocent man
grdjb TIL: The football huddle was first invented by a deaf college team (Gallaudet University) in 1894 to keep the opposing team (also deaf) from reading their plays which were signed in ASL
xVrP7 TIL that in 2018 tourists threw about 1.5 million euros in loose change into the trevi fountain (Rome)