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TIL that hay and straw are different things
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TIL of the death of Don Henry and Keven Ives, who were hit by a train as they lay on the tracks. The deaths were initially ruled an accident as a result of the boys sleeping on the tracks due to marijuana intoxication. The cause of death was changed to "definite homicide" after a second autopsy.
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TIL that during China's one child policy, 324 million Chinese women were pressured into being surgically fitted with contraceptive devices and 108 million were sterilized
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TIL that Texas scrapped the last meal tradition for condemned inmates after one of James Byrd Jr's killers died without having touched his enormous request
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TIL 92 percent of Afghan men never heard of 9/11
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TIL the 'Destroying Angel' mushroom, if consumed, creates an unusual sensation called a 'walking ghost' phase, where the victim doesn't feel sick, but damage to their cells is irreversible and they almost certainly die