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TIL there is quite a large list of people who were killed by the things they invented.

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d880Z TIL About "Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair" a video game where you make a movie with Steven Spielberg
xVZpD TIL: Spain is the world's second largest exporter of bricks
PVRE TIL: Timothy Ray Brown revived a stem cell transplant to treat his acute myeloid leukemia in 2008. Not only did he eliminate his cancer, but he became the first person to ever be cured from HIV.
kAeg TIL Kazakhstan was the last nation to leave the Soviet Union on December 16, 1991, four days after Russia left
EgyL7 TIL When Eli Wallach arrived in Madrid, Spain, all of the hotels were full. Clint Eastwood invited him to sleep over at a friend's house, and they shared the same bed. Wallach's wife Anne Jackson told him he could boast that he was the only man to sleep with Clint Eastwood.