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TIL in 2010 the owner of Segway Inc. died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.

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6YYW TIL there are three “original” citrus fruits: the citron, the pomelo, and the mandarine. All other citrus fruits are hybrids.
jNGZR TIL that counterintuitively, overall death rates DECREASED during both the Great Depression and the Great Recession. The main cause of this was a lack of motor vehicle accidents, but deaths from heart disease and infectious diseases also went down. Only suicide rates increased, and not by much.
MeWnW TIL the Ancient Silk Road city of Merv, Turkmenistan had once held the title of the world's largest city during the 12th-13th century with a population of more than 500,000 and in 1221 was horrifically decimated in its entirety by the Mongols in one of the worst genocides in human history
8NNV TIL When Stephen Hawking was in California, he visited a strip club with his entourage of nurses and got VIP dances on the bed with two naked strippers
Ox47 TIL There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her elementary school in Brooklyn