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TIL The third leading cause of death for pregnant women is homicide

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dDXad TIL The Miami Intermodal Center, located near Miami International Airport, was supposed to have an Amtrak station but it was discovered that Amtrak had forgotten to account for their longer winter trains while the platform was being built and trains would've block an adjacent road crossing.
EgyYp TIL Alice Pierce, who played nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the television sitcom Bewitched, received a posthumous Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She died of ovarian cancer during production of season 2, having kept it secret since joining the show.
p1OZ TIL John Dillinger escaped prison by brandishing a wooden pistol. The FBI also used way more money to catch him then he ever stole.
5YBAn TIL of isolated incidents of humans surviving abnormally high G-forces, most notably the Air Force officer John Stapp, who demonstrated a human can withstand 46.2 G’s. The experiment only went on a few seconds, but for an instant, his body had weighed over 7,700 pounds.
JYvYj TIL that Steve-O had a different set of teeth for each Jackass movie.