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TIL that after a man died of a heart attack from riding the roller coaster Python, SeaWorld removed its tagline: “I challenged the Python and lived!”.

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KOAv6 TIL that Dysthanasia is the opposite of Euthanasia and happens when a person is kept alive artificially despite being terminally ill without regard to their quality of life.
yQLGJ TIL: Getting hit in the testicles isn't more painful than labor or childbirth
QaLE TIL that Ed O'Neill was so typecast while on Married with Children, that his scenes were removed from a non-comedy film after a test audience laughed when he was on the screen.
Brjmy TIL the grandmother of Rush's bass player Geddy Lee saved his family in the concentration camps during WWII
8aVVG TIL A Canadian police officer was busted smuggling in cheese from the US. Fixed pricing on dairy has created a cheese black market within the country.