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TIL a pilot of a mail carrier plane once flew upside down for an extended of period of time to disorient the disgruntled employee trying to murder him and his copilot with a hammer and speargun.

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9Y4Q7 TIL about the ghost village Epecuén (Argentina) and it's sole inhabitant, Pablo Novak. The once touristic town became uninhabitable after a flood slowly consumed it in 1985. The waters began to recede in 2009 and Novak (now 90 years old) returned to the home of his youth to live alone with his dogs.
l7JQA TIL: Mochi is highly cohesive and adhesive, and easy to choke on causing many fatal suffocation accidents in the elderly aged 65 years or older.
PYOGg TIL in 1976 Washington state repealed a sodomy law with the unintended consequence of decriminalizing bestiality. It became a criminal offense again 30 years later, after a man died from having sex with a horse.
GAXGQ TIL that people of normal weight with the apple body shape are at higher risk of death than overweight or obese people with pear or hourglass shaped bodies
A8Qd TIL “checks” can be written on just about anything and not necessarily on an actual check