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TIL that multiple people have died attempting to cross a seemingly calm, innocent creek called the Bolton Strid. The stream actually hosts multiple underwater cave systems and dangerous currents below the surface that have sucked numerous people to their deaths.

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d868K TIL a Brooklyn mailman neglected to deliver around 40,000 pieces of mail; about 2,500 pounds of US mail were found in the home, locker, & car of mailman Joseph Brucato. When the mail was found, a spokeswoman for USPS said she didn't know when the mail from Brucato's route would be delivered.
R70mj TIL in 1936 a man was killed by a kangaroo. The kangaroo "broke the jaw" and inflicted "extensive head injuries" on the man, who was attacked after attempting to rescue his two dogs. It is the only documented case of a fatal kangaroo attack.
9Xom TIL Deadpool had a fan that collected his severed limbs a used them to make her own
NE4P TIL Anthropologists believe cats approached humans on their own terms 12,000 years ago. The first agricultural societies stored food that attracted mice, the cats decreased the rodent population by eating them, and a mutual relationship began.
XnGE TIL: Sony installed rootkits through millions of CDs, and their president knew but said people shouldn’t care about it.