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TIL cows are the cause of 20 times more deaths than sharks. Whenever a cow gets scared they will charge and attack, considering they are over 1000 pounds death due to a cow charge is highly plausible. Sharks usually only kill humans when they mistake them for some other source of food like a turtle.

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6V7X TIL Penn Jillette once cut his thumb open during his Vegas show while juggling broken bottles. He continued performing, bleeding all over props, a double bass, and Teller. The next day the wound was still bleeding so he had it glued shut on the air for his radio show.
LEap TIL 8 % human DNA is made up of ancient viruses that used to infect us
R7Qn9 TIL - The military did a study and found that 90% of more than 100 over the counter and prescription drugs were perfectly good to use after 15 years in storage.
Px4e TIL that honey is the only food that will not rot. A jar of honey may remain edible for over 3000 years.
VZG4 TIL that Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical, broke a German Monopoly on bromine by buying chemicals in America that the germans were selling at a loss to put him out of business, and reselling them in Germany for a profit.