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TIL that David Carradine died in a hotel room in Bangkok, the reported result of autoerotic asphyxiation - the intentional restriction of oxygen for sexual pleasure. His family and agent believed that Carradine was murdered.

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yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
vPGJj TIL umarell are “men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back”
rN4eo TIL about the Passage du Gois, a road in France that's flooded out twice a day by the high tide.
1mgd TIL in the USA you get a medal if you donate the organs/body of a deceased loved one
WxgL TIL in response to 9/11, leaders that vehemently denouncing the attacks included the Presidents of Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Libya, Syria, Iran and Pakistan. The sole exception was Saddam Hussein, who said that “the American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their crimes against humanity”.