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TIL That the number of Voodoo Practitioners in New Orleans dropped 90% after Hurricane Katrina

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N7AjJ TIL of an unusual death at the Condor Club, San Francisco in 1983. Bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo and his girlfriend Theresa Hill were having sex on the club's famous white piano which descended from the ceiling via cables. They accidentally hit the 'on' switch and the piano ascended, asphyxiating Ferrozzo.
vLlL TIL: A Newly discovered frog (Jan. 2015 publication date) gives birth to live tadpoles. It is the only known frog that gives birth to live tadpoles.
kWW1 TIL that if North Dakota seceded from the U.S., it would be the third largest nuclear power in the world.
lyMK TIL human nostrils alternate air flow every hour in order to give the other nostril a “break” from air particles, odours and other irritants. This is why, during a cold, one nostril always appears to be plugged while other is open.
kO6DE TIL that in Edgar Allen Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gorden Pym of Nantucket the survivors of a shipwreck eat a character called Richard Parker. Poe called the book "silly," but in 1884 the survivors of a real British shipwreck were tried for eating a cabin boy ... named Richard Parker.