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TIL the risk of terrorism is statistically insignificant. You are far more likely to die slipping in the bathtub, getting struck by lightning, or drowning in the bathtub.

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617 TIL that in 1980, an oil drilling rig in Louisiana accidentally broke through into an underground salt mine and ended up draining a lake, like pulling the plug on a giant bathtub.
yQnwM TIL about Britches, an infant monkey who was taken from his mother shortly after birth and had his eyes sewn shut, so researchers could study his blindness. He was broken out by animal rights activists.
5Vrxk TIL about the "boiling frog", an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.
J1L01 TIL that the world's largest video game studio is headquartered in a former textile factory
nWlYb TIL about Tobia Nicotra, a prolific Italian forger whose forgeries have been found in the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan Opera. He visited the U.S. in 1932 and led an orchestra impersonating Riccardo Drigo, a composer who had died two years earlier.