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TIL After 9/11, people drove more instead of flying, resulting in an additional 1,000 fatalities since driving is more dangerous than flying.

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GvKQ TIL: More members of Alcoholics Anonymous die from cigarette related illnesses than alcohol. Including one of the co-founders who continued smoking even after needing an oxygen tank to breathe.
KbNG TIL that marijuana is called ‘pot’ due to it being derived from the Spanish word 'potaguaya’, which is a wine or brandy that has had marijuana buds steeped in it
Y7J1x TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. The Shropshire gig came just over a week after the Fab Four released their first big hit, the single Please Please Me.
b9JYa TIL the word "lozenge" is another name for "diamond shaped". We call cough drops lozenges because very early cough drops were often shaped like diamonds.
DQNYY TIL that at the 1992 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding figure skated to a song called "People Are Still Having Sex." The non-instrumental was a Billboard US dance chart #1 hit, featuring a narrator talking about the fact that people are still having sex.