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TIL Jazz is the hardest word to guess in hangman, according to math.

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KgkG TIL 45 American politicians have been assassinated, with Democrats suffering 19 losses compared to the Republican’s 8
vPbwK TIL thst after L. Ron Hubbard died in 1986, the Church of Scientology said he'd left his body behind because it was getting in the way of his work. He'd gone off to another planet to do some scientific research, having "learned how to do it without a body. "
WkV99 TIL Pythagoras' followers weren't allowed to eat beans. He believed that the flatulence caused by the beans would take away a piece of the soul.
16xwV TIL that on 11 May 1910, 260 children were left fatherless and 85 women widowed as a result of the Wellington Pit Explosion in Whitehaven, Cumbria.
oDjR TIL a truck driver passed out, crashed, and died after breathing in toxic fumes created by a cargo of decomposing sea lettuce