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TIL Diesel engines produce very little carbon monoxide and will not kill a person trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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bEgj TIL Jerry Seinfeld met his wife while she was engaged to another man. She married the other guy in June 1998, went on a three week honeymoon, came back and moved in with Seinfeld, divorced her husband by October, and was engaged to Seinfeld before the year was out, November 1998.
rvde TIL of the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident, where a human error caused a decompression chamber to go from 9 atmospheres of pressure to 1 in less than a second. Out of the 5 dead, one was ripped apart so violently pieces of him were found over 30 feet away.
ZpyX4 TIL Lady Gaga secretly swapped in "Fuck her face" for "Poker Face" during the chorus of the song with the same name. She later admitted that only Kiss FM in Los Angeles noticed the change and the song was played with the NSFW lyrics across the globe.
njmW TIL that in January 1992 28.000 bath toys fell off a cargo ship. Some of them are still out there.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson