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TIL heat kills more people than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined.

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N9VQ TIL a reporter for the Morning Bulletin in Australia once wrote an article about 30 000 pigs escaping from a farm. The paper had to issue a retraction the next day when it transpired the reporter had misheard the farmer. In fact, 30 sows and pigs had escaped.
KOjgQ TIL If you sit at one place for hours (students, employees, truck drivers etc.), you have the risk of developing heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia, anxiety, indigestion, bad knees, cancer, bad back and it can shorten your life, EVEN if you workout several hours a day.
owlW TIL albino redwood trees are unable to produce chlorophyll, however, they can survive because they are able to fuse their roots with the roots of other redwood trees and live as parasites.
N7JAb TIL not only can you buy an "official" ocarina based on the game LoZ Ocarina of Time, there are now several variations and many more ocarina companies thriving because of that one game's famous ocarina. They all play and most are inexpensive.
gM9Z8 TIL Marlon Wayans was cast as Robin in the 1992 film "Batman Returns" and still receives income from the film despite his character getting cut from the script