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TIL no human fatalities have been recorded in the 18 documented, unprovoked attacks by hammerhead sharks (within the genus Sphyrna) since 1580 CE.

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VM6VB TIL about Ashley's Sack. Ashley, a slave, was sold at nine years old. Her mother provided a cotton sack as a parting gift. Telling her "it be filled with my love always", it contained a tattered dress, a handful of pecans, and a braid of her mother's hair.
KOy4Q TIL BBC delayed the release of David Bowie's song Space Oddity due to the Moon Landing
d86r9 TIL theres a guy named Oli London who's an insane 'koreaboo' who has spent around £265,000 on plastic surgery to look like Park Jimin from the global K-Pop group BTS and has recently MARRIED a cardboard cut out of his K-Pop idol.
Qn7p TIL that the upside-down cross, sometimes associated with Satanism, is actually the symbol of St. Peter and his successors, the Catholic Popes.
XoyR TIL in the 1920s pedestrian deaths were considered public tragedies with monuments built for killed children and their mothers given honorary emblems. Then the automotive industry created the term ‘jaywalker’ to shift the blame onto the victims and ridicule them.