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TIL that Autoerotic asphyxiation kills more than 500 Americans each year

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7B8L TIL that before Heinz took over, 90% of ketchup on the market contained so many “injurious ingredients” that a bottle of it could literally kill you.
LLYV TIL that a robot with pool noodle limbs and a computerized brain hitchhiked across Canada last summer.
r1bM TIL the story of Santa and his flying reindeer can be traced to hallucinogenic or “magic” mushrooms.
oBJOr TIL that Winston Groom , author of the novel "Forrest Gump", wanted John Goodman to play the lead role of Forrest in the movie. In the novel, Forrest is 6 foot 6 inches tall, 240 pounds, uses much profanity and is very sexually active.
b9oL9 TIL of Fannie Quigley—a five-foot-tall frontierswoman who spent nearly 40 years prospecting in a remote Alaskan region in the 1890s. She was defined as an all-in-one miner, hunter, brewer, and cook who used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.