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TIL based on a study done over a decade, Lifeboats have become the leading cause of death among modern seafarers

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W746o TIL about Caudal Duplication Syndrome, a rare congenital disorder which can cause a person to be born with multiple sets of genitalia.
1awAr TIL a Russian man changed the fine print on his credit card application to 0% APR and no fees, and got his bank to sign it.
d8moK TIL 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered each year, and just a single one is enough to kill fish in a stream. Cigarette fragments have been found in 70 percent of seabirds and 30 percent of sea turtles.
0d1my TIL, scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton
e0R1b TIL Tupac was a ballet dancer, and played the role of the Mouse King in The Nutcracker.