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TIL that drowning is often quick and silent. While drowning, the victim's mouth can only stay above the water for just enough time to breathe. The victim is not usually able to wave or yell for help. Because of this, most onlookers assume the event to be regular swimming.

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pY4OG TIL of Sidney Korshak, a lawyer who was the Chicago Mafia’s main man in Los Angeles. Korshak went to his death, without so much as a criminal indictment against him, let alone a conviction.
Oow16 TIL that the physicist Pierre Curie, husband of the physicist Marie Curie, died in an accident in Paris, France, on April 19, 1906. Sir Curie lost his footing while crossing the street and fell beneath the wheels of a horse-drawn vehicle, suffering a fatal skull fracture. He was 46 years old.
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