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PYNV TIL that between 1911 and 1994, tigers killed 16,152 people in India
nW9ed TIL One of the Walter Reade Organization's publicity stunts was a $50,000 insurance policy against anyone dying from a heart attack while watching the movie Night of the Living Dead (1968)
kJ1KW TIL no POTUS has been an only child.
jNgkE TIL that Ferrari's famous "prancing horse" logo was coined because one of Enzo Ferrari's best friends gave him a necklace with a prancing horse just before taking off and then getting shot down in a WWI dogfight over the Isonzo Front
eMeE TIL Palomar Observatory representatives have managed to persuade the city councils of San Diego and its neighboring communities to light their streets with low-pressure sodium lamps in order to reduce light pollution for their astronomers