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TIL that the CIA has a secret Heart Attack Gun weapon that can shoot a small poison dart into a person to cause a heart attack almost instantly.

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eym5 TIL the cereal Cookie Crisp was created by Purina, the pet food company.
e0lZg TIL That in 1977 Keith Richards was busted in Toronto with $4000 worth of heroin, and was sentenced to play two free concerts for the CNIB (Canadian National Institute For The Blind)
7rYOx TIL That Asians are more likely to die from heart failure on the 4th of the month than they are any other day of the month (7.3% death rate above expected), due to increased stress from Tetraphobia (their cultural fear of the number 4). This has been termed the Baskerville effect.
69X9Z TIL a heat wave in Europe in 2003 killed over 70,000 people.
GmGQ TIL King James VI of Scotland was so notorious for not reading official papers before signing them, his court jester was able to get him to sign his own abdication papers, making his jester King for 15 days.