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TIL Florida has almost twice as many boating accidents as the next highest state(California) which has about twice as many as the third highest (New York)

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e0GEn TIL that when Bobby Pickett finished the demo of "Monster Mash" in 1962, it was rejected by every major music label. Finally a willing producer was found, and it hit #1 on the Billboard charts, went gold x3 its first week, and has charted in multiple years since.
X4A6 TIL The smell of books makes some people need to poop. The Mariko Aoki phenomenon is a phenomenon consisting of the urge to defecate while visiting a bookstore. Originating in Japan, it is named for the woman who first publicized such an urge.
9YO5X TIL former Manchester United player Patrice Evra has 23 brothers and sisters
oOdo TIL Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, is the son of comedian Mel Brooks and Actress Anne Bancroft.
GALGJ TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 18th century, had a bizarre endless appetite. He ate a meal made for 15 people in one sitting, live puppies, cats and snakes and it got so bad while hospitalised he attempted to eat corpses from the morgue, patient's blood and a suspected one year old toddler