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TIL that Autoerotic asphyxiation kills more than 500 Americans each year

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M7NeW TIL about Coarsegold, California which holds an annual Tarantula Festival to coincide with Tarantula mating season. The festival includes tarantula racing, a competition for the hairiest legs of both men and women, and a pumpkin dessert contest.
DQKKV TIL Miguel Indurain, 5-time Tour de France winner, had a resting heart rate of just 28 bpm
yQ5GJ TIL that Trichloramine, the byproduct of urine/sweat and chlorine, is a dangerous compound for our lungs and is responsible for the classic smell at indoor pools.
ROX4 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, the final Leader of the Soviet Union, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for “his leading role in the peace process”
Zp40o TIL Alexei Navalny was able to record a conversion with FSB agent Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev who confessed poisining his underwear