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TIL ~1 in 5 British children are conceived on Ikea mattresses

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GYBaE TIL the world's current #1 female chess player treats chess as a hobby and is a Rhodes Scholar and a University professor at age 26.
GYDV4 TIL of Dylan McWilliams, a 20 year old man who was bitten by a shark, attacked by a bear, and bitten by a rattlesnake - the odds of which are 893 quadrillion to one.
e0wx6 TIL Manga is so popular in Japan that the country uses more paper for printing Manga than toilet paper.
p8Odb TIL Lufthansa is the world's largest purchaser of caviar, buying about 5% of world production.
E1xpP TIL "burking" is the death by asphyxiation caused by someone sitting on your chest and holding his hand over your mouth and nose. It is named after the Scottish serial killer William Burke, who used this method in order to leave few marks on the victims which he then sold to Anatomical Institutes.