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TIL on the day Judy Garland died, there was a tornado in Kansas

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W75no TIL Sloths Only Poop Once A Week and Climb Down From Trees To Do So
DQ8Dv TIL of James Sligo Jameson, heir to Jameson’s Whisky, who paid the price of 6 handkerchiefs to watch a 10 year old girl be eaten by cannibals.
69r4J TIL in 2011 a man survived an accident where he fell on the nozzle of a high pressure air hose, which pierced his left buttock & rushed air into his body at 100 pounds per square inch. He was inflated to twice his normal size with the air separating his fat from his muscles & compressing his heart.
xVKp7 TIL the first known case of "dying from laughing" involved the greek man called Chrysippus, who, after giving figs to his donkey, cried out "Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs", had a fit of laughter afterwards and died.
gEbD TIL the surviving SEAL from the events that inspired Lone Survivor supports the Afgani man who saved him with royalties from the book.