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TIL that 8 of the 10 most dangerous US cities for pedestrians are in Florida.

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69VEQ TIL That singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford after graduating summa cum laude from Pomona College
9r0r TIL that a tape indicated only one person objected to Jim Jones before the mass suicide in Jonestown where over 900 died and she was shouted down by the rest of the group.
pbQ8 TIL in 1846, John Torrington perished during an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When his corpse was exhumed 138 years later, it was almost perfectly preserved – eyes wide open, clothing intact, and limbs so flexible that moving him felt like moving someone unconscious rather than dead.
gmnb TIL a crocodile smuggled aboard an aircraft, escaped and caused panic. The plane crashed and killed everyone except the crocodile.
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