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TIL the 2011 Joplin, Missouri EF5 tornado caused numerous fatal fungal infections in people injured by debris.

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6bkX TIL that Space Jam is the highest-grossing basketball movie of all time.
g6Dy TIL that Ice-T is responsible for the infamous line “… I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one”, not Jay-Z.
VM05m TIL that adult women represent a larger percentage (33%) of video game players than boys under 18 (17%).
O1eg TIL: The last surviving eyewitness of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination was a man named Samuel J. Seymour who lived until April 12, 1956 at the age of 96. In February 1956, Seymour appeared on the TV game show I’ve Got a Secret, where he described the assassination in detail.
lWgB TIL that a fourteen year-old boy, bleeding from the anus and heavily drugged, managed to escape Jeffery Dahmer only to be returned to him after Dahmer convinced police the boy was his lover.