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TIL Sudden Adult Death Syndrome accounts for +/-500 deaths per year, deaths with no cause found at autopsy.

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DZEJ TIL In 1956 Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to get back the Suez Canal. Despite being a military success and having minor losses, it had so much political fallout that most historians consider it the end of Britain as a superpower.
b9rAZ TIL: The "Canadian beer is stronger" idea is a misnomer. The U.S.A. used to use ABW (weight), whereas Canada used ABV (volume). This lead to a difference in labeled alcohol content despite the two being fundamentally the same.
lod05 TIL that cheek dimples are a genetically transmitted abnormality of a muscle in the cheek. Also, almost all babies have cheek dimples because of so much fat in their cheeks which is required for suckling and causes facial depression. They disappear once the baby fat melts away.
lrNN TIL The NY Yankees beat up a drunk bowling team because they were hurling racial slurs at Sammy Davis Jr. as he played the Copacabana
v1rKx TIL that at 23 years old, Isaac Newton went into quarantine due to the bubonic plague. During his time in quarantine, he proved the refractive properties of prisms, invented calculus, and was famously hit on the head by an apple.