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TIL Louise-Marie-Thérèse passed gas while she was dying. She uttered “Good. A woman who can fart is not dead” and then died.

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bGEj TIL there is a stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line supposedly lies exactly on the Equator, making each team defend one hemisphere.
E1gy0 TIL The word shilling comes from schilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.
Zpmm4 TIL suicide rates peak in spring -- in April, May and June -- not in the winter
W4M9 TIL Coal Power Plants generate more radiation than Nuclear Power Plants. Coal contains uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements.They occur in such trace amounts in natural coal. But when coal is burned into fly ash, uranium and thorium are concentrated at up to 10 times their original levels.