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TIL of Tommy McHugh, who at 51 “attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door,” suffered a brain hemorrhage, and unlocked a previously hidden talent for creating poetry and art

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k6GE TIL One of the Hyena’s Ancestors Had a Bite that Could Splinter Elephant Bones
4aGb TIL Toys R Us has a global anti-union and no-negotiation policy in effect everywhere - except in Sweden
Oo5Z6 TIL that in 1998 USA, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
xm4w TIL no Canadian Prime Minister has been assassinated while serving their term and only two have died in office, as a result of a stroke, and heart attack respectively.
p8YOb TIL of the Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, who led Zambian space program in 1960s, attempting to beat US and Soviets to the Moon.