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TIL That plucking your nose hair can trigger what doctors call the “Triangle of Death” and kill you.

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kAR1 TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
6Epkm TIL that if Will Smith had accepted the role of Neo in the Matrix, then Morpheus probably would have been played by Val Kilmer
X06oP TIL "Fīat iūstitia ruat cælum" is a Latin legal phrase, meaning "Let justice be done though the heavens fall." The maxim signifies the belief that justice must be realized regardless of consequences.
4kMjN TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The waters broke through the Strait of Gibraltar at 1,000x the rate of the Amazon!
6E7jY TIL the life expectancy of a black garden ant is about 15 years.