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TIL Homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in U.S.

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epllJ TIL there were ticket scalpers for gladiator fights in Ancient Rome. Gladiators like Hermes were known to draw the largest crowds and brought in high profits for scalpers due to demand
jNQPM TIL: Texas law states that any two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat.
DQVRj TIL - When Alice Cooper played his “School’s Out” concert in 1972 at the Hollywood Bowl, he had a helicopter fly over and drop women’s panties on the crowd
J5v TIL that a random guy on a beach in Scotland found an axe head that could be 450,000 years old
eJ75 TIL the line from The Martian, “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this” isn’t translatable into several other languages. In the French translation: “I’ll have to shit out a lot of science to get out of this.” In Russian, “Only science can pull me out of this shit”.