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TIL A 30 year-old woman from New Zealand died in 2013 due to cardiac arrhythmia that was linked to her habit of drinking up to 2.6 gallons of Coca-Cola daily.

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mxreY TIL in 2012 three researchers proved that many classic Nintendo games are NP-hard by developing a framework for reducing the 3SAT problem to any platform game. This means the question "given a finite level of a game, can the player move from start to finish?" is not computable in polynomial time.
o0MY TIL that in the 19th century China came extremely close to being ruled by the leader of a Christian cult who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It took the deadliest civil war in history with 30 million dead to defeat him.
kPyB TIL that until 1986 you didn’t even need to buy property in Alaska. You could build a house and it would have been yours…
9m7B TIL Actor, Chevy Chase, played drums in a band that would eventually become Steely Dan. (See Schooling and Music section of link)
NXwaQ TIL: The world's largest Michael Jackson memorabilia collection is in Equatorial Guinea bought by the reigning dictator's son with stolen government funds.