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TIL in 1980, Monica Myers, mayor of Betterton, Maryland, died while checking her towns sewage tanks. She fell in and drowned in 15ft of human waste.

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pYwpQ TIL about the "Raines sandwich;" an inedible piece of "food" that served as a way to bypass prohibition laws.
b6k6a TIL that they ironically found a cancer killing molecule in the tobacco plant.
d8Oe7 TIL the human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive.
GYBG TIL The evolutionary path of how lizards lost their legs to become snakes is one of the most well documented transitions as most intermediates still exist!
AN9J4 TIL Judge Alex Kozinski, who ruled on the early 2000s Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. (Barbie Girl song) dismissed the case; concluded his ruling by saying, "The parties are advised to chill”.