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TIL Death from laughter is a real thing. Excessive laughter can cause trauma, fainting and death by cardiac arrest or asphyxiation.

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Z81yG TIL actor Jim Carrey wrote a fictitious autobiography that includes Chinese conspiracies, faking versions of celebrities, hallucinogenic dialogues, battling aliens with Gwyneth Paltrow and dressing up before going to bed as he’s afraid of selfies taken at the morgue if he dies in his sleep.
ADnwB TIL that macaroni and cheese originated in the 14th Century. A Middle English recipe describes it as "Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on pieces, and cast hem on boiling water & seeþ it well. take cheese and grate it and butter cast bynethen and above as losyns. and serue forth."
9MWM TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza was originally constructed with a covering of polished casing stones that would act like gigantic mirrors and reflect light so powerful that the pyramid would be visible from the moon.
mk0v TIL that in Jamestown in 1619, you could purchase a wife for 120 pounds of tobacco.
5KoP TIL: There existed a species of fish that was armored like a tank and went after basically anything it thought would make a good meal. One of these fish is called the “Dunkleosteus”