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TIL of the "Triangle of Death" on your face, an area heavily connected via blood vessels to the skull where infections (commonly staph) due to broken skin can spread rapidly to critical parts of the brain.

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KO5ME TIL that the treadmill was first introduced as a Prison Rehabilitation Device, meant to cause the incarcerated to suffer and learn from their sweat. When Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years in prison in 1895, he was forced to use a treadmill as part of his punishment.
JKav TIL Jim Henson once made 179 ads for a Wilkins Coffee company that depicted ‘Muppet-prototypes’ where one puppet who didn’t drink Wilkins Coffee would get injured and beat up by another puppet, he later went on to become Kermit The Frog and signed a deal with Wilkins Tea
yQ96M TIL that there is an asteroid named after the fictional spy, James Bond (9007 James Bond)
9Y7nm TIL about The Fortress of the Bears (aka Admiralty Island), an island off the coast of Alaska that has the highest concentration of brown bears in North America. The ~1600 bears outnumber people 3 to 1.
0woMA TIL the Echis (Saw-Scaled Viper) is responsible for more human related deaths than any other snake and is arguably responsible for more deaths per year than all other snake species combined.