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TIL that Autoerotic asphyxiation kills more than 500 Americans each year

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OoB41 TIL at the start of the Civil War the Union issued "essence of coffee," a mix of boiled coffee, milk, and sugar that was reconstituted with water, as a time saving measure. The soldiers refused to drink it, and whole roasted coffee beans were again issued
rRJXy TIL about the General Archive of the Indies, a building in Seville, Spain that contains millions of documents regarding the colonization and administration of the Americas, with original scriptures from people like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and various Conquistadors
BKnx TIL that Andrew Jackson carried a locket with a picture of his deceased wife, Rachel Jackson, and propped it up in front of his bed every night so that she would be the last thing he saw when falling asleep and the first thing when he woke up.
rNEvW TIL in his final years, Marlon Brando was a secret tech geek who collected Mac computers, experimented with digital effects and Photoshop, was a fan of the game Myst, and pretended to be a Chinese exchange student online
e05pE TIL that the movie “Mars Attacks” is based off of a Topps trading cards series