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TIL that bagel-related injuries are so common that hospitals have special names for them.

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8eG7X TIL that there is a town under water in the state of Maine because a greedy power company flooded it for their own use and when not all homeowners agreed to sell, they flooded it anyway.
X0nV8 TIL about Ina Benita, "the first Polish femme fatale", an interwar movie star that was believed dead after the Warsaw Uprising, but completely anonymously lived in the US until 1984. Her grandson only discovered this 30 years after her death. (translation from DE wiki due to depth)
7rooX TIL that in 2015 Tommie Woodward, a 28 year old Texan ignored a large sign that said "No Swimming Alligators" and instead yelled out "f--- the alligators" and jumped in the lake. He was mauled to death almost instantly
VM1L4 TIL about Alex Mullen, a memory competitor and American memory grandmaster, who set a world record in 2017 by memorizing 3,238 digits in the space of an hour by using the Sherlock-popularized memory palace.
NDKP TIL Prince Leopold IV of Lippe disinherited his 3 eldest sons after they joined the Nazi Party. He left the family fortune, farms, forests and castle to his youngest son, Armin.