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TIL that the official cause of Houdini's death on Halloween in 1926 was diffuse peritonitis; this is the result of a burst appendix. J. Gordon Whitehead's sucker punch did not cause his death because Houdini died 6 days later after the punch, and it was caused from a bacterial infection.

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MPPB TIL when it was revealed that Richard Bachman was a pen name used by Stephen King, about the author blurbs on the books said that Bachman died suddenly of “cancer of the pseudonym, a rare form of schizonomia”.
4XeZa TIL that astronomer Tycho Brahe got into a drunken duel with his cousin over who was the better mathematician, and as a result of the duel had to wear a prosthetic nose.
oRvvW TIL about Opa-locka, a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that has the largest collection of Moorish Revival architecture in the Western Hemisphere, and street names such as Sharazad Boulevard, Sinbad Avenue, and Sultan Avenue.
QNngM TIL that since 2002, the Navajo Nation has imposed a moratorium on genetic research and use of Tribal members' DNA in genetic studies due to ethical concerns about what the data was being used for and Tribal sovereignty.
mgDE TIL Sagawa a creepy Japanese cannibal killer, murdered a Dutch woman in Paris. Then fled Europe, returned home where he became a celebrity who hosted game shows, a porn star and writes restaurant reviews.