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TIL the Inland Taipan is "by far the most toxic of any snake" - one dose of it's venom "possesses enough lethality to kill at least 100 fully grown men."

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7rNmr TIL in November 1942, the Holy Cross Crusaders beat the Boston College Eagles. The Eagles had scheduled a presumptive victory party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, but cancelled it after the loss. Therefore, they were absent when the club caught fire, killing 492 people.
pYPVG TIL the music video for Mint Royale's "Blue Song" was the direct inspiration for the 2017 feature film Baby Driver
W7La8 TIL that Van Halen's touring contract stated that if they found any brown M&M's backstage the band could cancel the concert at the full expense of the promotor. If brown M&M's were found it meant the promotor hadn't read every word of the contract and may have missed important safety-related items.
57BQ TIL During the Falklands war, while the HMS Sheffield was sinking it’s crew burst into song, singing Monty Python’s “Always look on the bright side of life”
GGbg TIL the “perfect Aryan baby” chosen by Goebbels and widely circulated in mid-1930s Nazi propaganda was later found to be Jewish