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TIL that Vincent Smith II, aged 29, died when he fell into a eight-foot vat that was mixing and melting chocolate to be used in Hershey's candy.

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j6Mgn TIL that the ancient Mayan city of Caracol in modern-day Belize was founded in 1200 BCE, held more than double the population of the largest current day city in Belize (of 61,461), and the one of its temples, Caana, built ~9th century CE, is still the tallest building in the country today.
78Vbx TIL that every local field is isomorphic to R, C , a finite extension of Q_p , or a finite extension of the field of Laurent series over F_p
QNngM TIL that since 2002, the Navajo Nation has imposed a moratorium on genetic research and use of Tribal members' DNA in genetic studies due to ethical concerns about what the data was being used for and Tribal sovereignty.
Bgr9K TIL that the movie Soylent Green was set in 2022.