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TIL cows kill more people every year than sharks.

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EAAw TIL flamethrowers could only fire for about 7 seconds before running out of fuel.
6Eygm TIL Sexwork was legal in the state of Rhode Island until 2009. Despite claims that majority of people want the laws affecting sexwork to become loosened, the only major change in the last 30 years was to make sexwork illegal in the only state outside Nevada that allowed it.
8ap7L TIL that modern Icelandic is identical to Ancient Norse, unlike any other Scandinavian language, meaning that Icelandic children can read old Norse texts much more fluently than most professional Norse historians
KY8RJ TIL that Apples first CEO Michael Scott went on to become an expert on coloured gemstones. Micheal has even written a book on them. He has also assembled a private collection that he exhibited at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California.
jQ5Q TIL an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was proposed to change the country’s name to “the United States of Earth.” It did not pass.