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TIL in 1961, a cow in Cuba was killed by a satellite fragment falling out of the sky. This is the only documented satellite-crashing-to-Earth fatality

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7rLNO TIL that there are "Neomexicanos" of New Mexico that identify themselves as Spanish/Europeans in America since they are derived from Spanish settlers that arrived in New Mexico before the 16th century
lXQ5 TIL that a woman died at her own funeral from a heart attack caused by shock when she woke up and saw that she was in a coffin about to be buried alive.
OowZ4 TIL that more than two dozen large ships sink or go missing every year.
vBdD TIL Josef Fritzl, a guy who imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years, got hundreds of love letters following his arrest
JZdB TIL that dating was such a novelty in the early 1900s that women were often misperceived as prostitutes and arrested for letting a man buy them dinner