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TIL the WHO runs a diagnosis database that is so detailed, it has its own code (V91.07) for patients being injured because their water skis caught on fire.

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VM0m8 TIL Roald Dahl's last words were nearly “It’s just that I will miss you all so much,” until a nurse pricked him with a needle and he said “Ow, fuck!” then died.
rpV1 TIL that the highest grossing piece of entertainment of any kind, ever, with a gross of 5.6 billion dollars, is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera”
rEay TIL there is a 100% tax on gasoline in Denmark.
xVAmw TIL Folk Singer Phil Ochs was paranoid that the FBI was spying on him, saying, "I'm a folk singer for the FBI" in 1966. In reality the FBI had hundreds of pages on file, but Ochs never committed a federal crime. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976.
MLDB TIL that NASA has created a crop called dwarf wheat that contains more nutrients, manages to germinate faster and is smaller than conventional wheat. These crops were successfully grown in space aboard the ISS and could serve as a source of food for future astronauts.