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TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only US capital without a McDonald's

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69vlZ TIL one of France's greatest distance runners, who participated in 4 Olympics, was killed by an elephant.
GAmJJ TIL that a rollover error in a radiotherapy machine’s computer system meant the sufficient checks were not ran before the machine delivered the dosage. Several people were delivered upwards of 80,000 rads and subsequently died from the overdose.
04Y5 TIL: some 20% of women experience an acute pain called Mittelschmerz when they ovulate, being able to predict the exact moment of ovulation and from which ovary
GYw7G TIL 'Jump round' was mean't for Cypress Hill but they turned it down, then it was offered to Ice Cube who also refused it, finally it was given to House of Pain.
16xLD TIL that Paul Winchell, the guy who voiced Mr. Owl on the Tootsie Pop commercials, Tigger from Winnie the Poo, and Gargamel from the Smurfs, also invented the artificial heart.