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TIL Studies show that the risk of dying from an injury is far less in the city than in the country

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kJk6B TIL of US Congressman Francis E. Walter, who during WW2 decided to present President Roosevelt with a letter-opener made from a bone in the arm of a Japanese soldier
J17xB TIL Many Amazon Prime Day Deals are fraud and one needs to check price history before buying even from established sellers. For example, "Wyze Lifestyle" jacked up prices for their Wyze Scale X products on Prime Day only to bring them back down with a "Prime Day Deal" (https://imgur.com/Zi8yNVF).
gMbw9 TIL Woody Harrelson's father Charles Harrelson was a professional hitman, and a former inmate of SuperMax prison in Colorado
xGX1 TIL that Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor would hire prostitutes and send them to his opponents’ hotel rooms the night before a game to try to tire them out
eplr6 TIL: When St. Patrick was 16 years old, he was captured by Irish pirates. His enslavement eventually led to his conversion to Christianity.