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TIL. Casper the Friendly Ghost was a young teen who died of pneumonia after sledding all day.

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BrRrb TIL the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Kit was the world’s most dangerous toy,which included three sources of radiation and four uranium ores that are also radioactive. The kit, which first went on sale in 1950, came with an instruction booklet and pamphlet on how to prospect uranium.
eW5b TIL the more equal a marriage is, the less likely they’ll be having sex. Nsfw
nZG7 TIL modern Westerners tend to have a lifelong attraction to fire because they don’t learn to start, maintain, and master fire during childhood. However, in cultures where fire is used as a tool from a young age, interest in it wanes around age 7.
GYlm5 TIL one of the original members of Fleetwood Mac went out to the store while on tour in California in 1971. He never returned and, after the band, record producers, and the police searched for him for several days, it was discovered that he had joined a cult called The Children of God.
9YBwp TIL that the Woodingdean Water Well is the world's deepest hand-dug well, reaching an astonishing 390 metres (1,285 feet) and took four years to finish -- between 1858 to 1862.