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TIL that in 1974 a man died from an overdose of carrot juice.

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E1lBP TIL of the trial and judgement of Nazi camp commandant Josef Oberhauser. Sentenced by West German courts for 450,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Bełżec camp, he was punished with 4,5 years imprisonment, or, a bit more than 5 minutes per victim.
b9PYj TIL...It costs approximately $7.5 million in funding per astronaut per day to be aboard the International Space Station
b6Lx9 TIL that the Japanese during WW2 evacuated over 5000 troops from Kiska, Alaska in 1943 by using the dense fog to avoid the US Fleet that had come to recapture the island
xVBJ0 TIL In 1953, the Canadian government relocated some of the Inuit in Northern Quebec up north to Resolute and Grise Fiord. The relocation has been described as a humanitarian gesture to save the lives of starving native people and enable them to continue a subsistence lifestyle
rRYD1 TIL more people have died climbing Table Mountain in Cape Town, than have been killed by Everest. Poor planning, dehydration and even losing concentration while taking selfies are to blame.