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TIL that Autoerotic asphyxiation kills more than 500 Americans each year

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lokYK TIL Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s mother was highly intelligent and graduated high school at age 15, but was prevented from attending college by her parents who sent her brother instead. She emphasized education to her daughter Ruth in the hopes that she might one day be a high-school history teacher.
mxmOp TIL that the last Ottoman Sultan spent the first 56 years of his life as a captive in a room known as “The Cage” before ascending to the throne. The purpose of the practice was to confine rival male heirs.
pYGjb TIL Steven Spielberg asked all the extras doing a Nazi salute in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' to also cross their fingers behind their backs
EpbW TIL in 1994 toxic fumes from a dying woman’s blood caused an ER to be entirely evacuated, with 23 of the 37 staff sick, 5 of whom were hospitalized themselves, one in intensive care for two weeks.
6EVJQ TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it