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TIL That Between 2012 and 2016, atleast 147 Visitors drowned in Hawai'i, nearly one a week on average, while doing common tourist activities like swimming and snorkeling....

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QJBXd TIL that the most common way to die on the Oregon Trail was actually by wagon accident, followed by accidental shootings.
5VnRD TIL that when sperm whales started getting killed for lamp oil, they were able to develop and spread effective defence tactics across the ocean in just a few years
rRGBx TIL that the artist who made Scooby-Doo found desirable traits that you’d look for in a top level show dog and drew Scooby-Doo to represent the opposite.
a8koo TIL The Last Civil War Veteran Died In 1956, And The Last Child of a Veteran Still Receiving An American Civil War Pension, Passed Away in 2020.
OokER TIL truly ambidextrous people make up 1% of the world's population. However, left-handed people are able to use their right hand almost as well as their dominant left.