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TIL Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning in the USA are male.

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G9wJ TIL a man named John Wesley Hyatt invented a replacement for ivory billiard balls. The balls were made of nitrocellulose, a substance prone to exploding when struck by things such as a pool cue.
QJpEE TIL when the original director of mega-flop The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) was fired and replaced, he secretly returned to set disguised as a mutant dog and worked for the rest of production as an extra.
MoV TIL that the serial number on a Euro note shows what country it is from & therefore some could be worth more than others if the Euro collapses.
x6okB TIL about 4% of all stocks generated all $34.8 trillion in wealth for shareholders between July 1926 and December 2016. 96% of all stocks collectively performed no better than 1- month treasury bonds.
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