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TIL Left-handed guitarist Kurt Cobain was right-handed for everything else

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P1YPJ TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person's skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.
e078D TIL a 17 year old online trading scam artist was killed via a bomb that one of the people he scammed sent him in the mail in retaliation
vPVbK TIL that the infamous (Sylvia Plath) suicide technique of sticking one's head in an oven was not a hot, violent affair. Rather, ovens used to run on "town gas" that had high carbon monoxide, and putting your head in an unlit oven was a rather peaceful way to go.
awaL TIL that a new study released by United States auto insurance quote provider 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org shows that statistically speaking, marijuana users are safer drivers than non-marijuana users.
vP0l8 TIL that after Superman’s much-publicized 1992 “death”, he returned in 1993’s “Reign of the Supermen” sporting a mullet. The cancelled film Superman Lives would have also featured a mullet-wearing Superman.