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TIL Tulips were once more valuable than gold.

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PYJkn TIL a 1970 episode of Hawaii Five-O featured a hanging method copied by a viewer of the show who died trying the technique. Their family sued CBS and the episode has never been rebroadcast and was excluded from DVD releases
69B6l TIL that the word with most meanings in the English language is the word "set." It has 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.
gMARA TIL Saint Valentine's Keys are given to offer a cure for epilepsy on Saint Valentine's Day
d8WbB TIL Killer Whales don't attack/eat people and the deaths caused by Orcas in captivity might have been caused by "playing too rough" or "stress".
R5xk7 TIL a 2011 study from UC Berkeley found that Mercedes and BMW drivers were nearly 5 times as likely to cut others off compared to drivers in non-luxury cars.