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TIL Mud Daubers, a type of wasp that is usually non-aggressive, are believed to have been the cause of two fatal plane crashes that killed everyone on board.

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W7GDA TIL about the Thanksgiving Day Disaster, leading to the deaths of 23 people watching college football in San Francisco in 1900.
e0W7L TIL The word 'Quarantine' originates from 14th century Italy, meaning '40 days'. Italy literally gave us the Quarantine, again.
Mx80 TIL Isaac Newton invented calculus when Cambridge University was closed due to the bubonic plague.
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XEW0Q 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.