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TIL that people have actually died from laughter

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ne0jr TIL that the traditional Mongolian script is ultimately derived from Ancient Egyptian Heirogliphics
enL5 TIL modern archaeologists have been able to trace almost every move of the Lewis and Clark expedition because they used mercury ladden laxatives which traces can still be found in the soil
wLb76 TIL The pilot episode for Friends (known at the time as Friends Like Us) used REM's Shiny Happy People as its theme song.
l75L1 TIL there was a group that created a sperm bank exclusively containing the semen of Nobel Prize winners, hoping to selectively give birth to the next generation of geniuses.
eyJJ TIL that press sensationalism influenced the 1982 conviction of an Australian woman for murdering her baby, and after 6 years in prison she was totally exonerated, yet her plaintive “a dingo ate my baby” became joke fodder among American comedians.